I would also recommend someone knows where you are and when you will be back. We are taking the day off in Haines Junction, Yukon.
The long hours of daylight have caught up with us and the wife is having a sleep in day and I may do the same this afternoon. Although HJ is small, we have met many people on the cruise ship rail/bus landtours here and I have been impressed by stories of Dawson and Chicken. The road from Whitehorse to HJ is downhill about 1% or less gradewise, but because of the way the trees grow with the northwesterly wind, you would swear you are going uphill all the way and it's easy to get vertigo - recorded our first 20.8 mpg leg because of the long slight downhill grade.
This is a picture I took last night of the famous Jack Mine Trail west of Haines Junction. I would grade the difficulty easy to medium, with lots of 7 inch volcanic rocks and large sideslopes. We turned around after 30 minutes because, the wife was getting in the hyper mode about getting stranded, but really an easy trail for the first part.
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