26 June Yukon and Whitehorse.

26 June.

The day started very gloomy with low mist, which fortunately had burned right off by the time I hit the road. I had a chat with Norman, a Christian Biker on his way up to Whitehorse with his wife, her mum and a nice worked over RD400 he was planning to leave at Whitehorse while he did a bit of work up there. He was a bit disappointed I wasn't planning to spend any time in Whitehorse, and now I'm here I can understand why. It's really the focal point of the Yukon. Maybe I'll take some time on the way back. I had good, but uneventful riding to the Yukon border, where I met up with Philip and David, two Harley boys from Alabama on day 12 of their adventure. We took each others photos and yarned for a while then back to the road.

Four days on the road and I'm finally into another Province!

Lunch at Nugget City with a charming couple from Washington State, then through to Teslin. The longest bridge on the Alaska highway, mesh decked - probably the most challenging bit of the trip so far, the bike weaves all over the metal mesh road surface, absolutely terrifyng.

Nitsulin Bay Bridge at Teslin - longest span on the Alaska Highway.

Stopping immediately after the bridge to gas up (I'd been caning it and hit reserve far earlier than I expected), I came across the largest group of KLRs I've seen so far, 6 bikes not all travellig together. Most were heading south with stories of good road conditions on the Dalton and the Cassiar (which I'm travelling) and the Dempster (which I'm not, worse luck). Uneventful ride to Whitehorse to be offered a couch at Bob and Louise's, relatives of Rob the aero engineer. Everyone needs an aero engineer! Bob did a lot of work on the first Telecoms systems that were built in the Yukon and Northern Territories, so we had a lot to talk about, cos I'm a Comms Guy myself.


Time on the road, 9 hours with a bit of mucking around, 526km
62mpg (thrashed it between Nugget City and Teslin).