June 24 Alaska Highway Reached!

24 June

Prince George to Pink Mountain
on the road at 9:00.

The roads are more winding now, although interspersed with great stretches of not very much but forest and nearly straight roads.
The forests here give the impression of being self-sown and are mixed, not like our plantation monocultures. There is a lot of damage from the pine beetle, with some stretches of at least 70 percent lost.

The brown is dead trees, hard to see but it goes right to the skyline.

Farther down the road, I came acros Bijoux Falls. Very pretty, but the insects are starting to come out now!

Bijoux Falls - thought to be named for the sparkling of the water (French)

Misinchinka ranges going over the Rockies.

I came into Chetwynd in time for lunch. Chetwynd has a huge collection of chainsaw sculptures scattered throughout the town. Some of the more spectacular ones are lined up along a walk on the main drag, here is one, there are too many to choose, but bandwidth and hosting limits being what they are, you only get one.

Chainsaw sculpture at Chetwynd

And later, a wee reminder of what the heck I've got myself into...

Gulp! 1500 km to Whitehorse - and that's still in Canada!

Dawson Creek at last. Mile Zero of the Alaska Highway!

Bits of the Highway have been overbuilt/bypassed. The curved wood bridge over the Kiskatinaw River is now on a potholed bypass.

Curved Wooden Bridge over the Kiskatinaw River

Finished up later than I expected at Pink Mountain due to extensive roadworks and a miscalculation of distance on my part. 7:45.
Followed rain, cold, tired, grabbed first motel I came across, a little dingy but warm and dry.

Time on road, 10.75h, 642k, 68.6mpg.