Whitehorse

[HummerJim]

The best part of our trip has been the people we've met, such as Mike from the Whitehorse Best Western, who invited us to his home for breakfast and to use his computer this morning - thanks Mike! Mike, originally from Thunder Bay, has been a wealth of information on planning for the trip to Kluane.
Saw our first bald eagle sitting on the hotel electric wires 80 ft. from our door this morning - AWESOME! I settled down with a Yukon Gold Beer last night - so smooth, it was almost like drinking a vanilla malt. Good stuff, and I plan on taking home a six pack or two! You see a lot of "drive drunk and go to jail" signs up here, they take drinking and driving VERY SERIOUSLY in the Yukon, and I found out Whitehorse is the home of the RCP. The weather has been nice but hazy and smokey with the temperature this morning a pleasant 13C or about 55F. The people up here talk locking axles, skid plates, and 4X4 like the people in the US talk baseball, and instead of gawking at the interior they want to get under the H3 and look at the guts. 4x4s up here are a matter of survival. 12,114 miles, averaging 18 mpg, running great, no gas pedal vibration, and no stars in the windshield yet from rocks, but I've found it's impossible to keep a car clean up here for longer than a day. Two areas of construction, but other than that, nice pavement , except for the shoulders, which are non existant with 9 inch drop offs or rock the size of softballs. Their definition of gravel here is nothing like in the US. The path of the detour is always not clear and they have pilot cars you follow. Used 4hilock on some wet mud that was almost like ice in this area.

[HummerJim]

The best part of our trip has been the people we've met, such as Mike from the Whitehorse Best Western, who invited us to his home for breakfast and to use his computer this morning - thanks Mike! Mike, originally from Thunder Bay, has been a wealth of information on planning for the trip to Kluane.
Saw our first bald eagle sitting on the hotel electric wires 80 ft. from our door this morning - AWESOME! I settled down with a Yukon Gold Beer last night - so smooth, it was almost like drinking a vanilla malt. Good stuff, and I plan on taking home a six pack or two! You see a lot of "drive drunk and go to jail" signs up here, they take drinking and driving VERY SERIOUSLY in the Yukon, and I found out Whitehorse is the home of the RCP. The weather has been nice but hazy and smokey with the temperature this morning a pleasant 13C or about 55F. The people up here talk locking axles, skid plates, and 4X4 like the people in the US talk baseball, and instead of gawking at the interior they want to get under the H3 and look at the guts. 4x4s up here are a matter of survival. 12,114 miles, averaging 18 mpg, running great, no gas pedal vibration, and no stars in the windshield yet from rocks, but I've found it's impossible to keep a car clean up here for longer than a day. Two areas of construction, but other than that, nice pavement , except for the shoulders, which are non existant with 9 inch drop offs or rock the size of softballs. Their definition of gravel here is nothing like in the US. The path of the detour is always not clear and they have pilot cars you follow. Used 4hilock on some wet mud that was almost like ice in this area.

[canucksnaphook]

Great stories Jim....keep them up. I enjoy waiting on more pics and details of what its like in the REAL "frozen tundra" !! And yes, despite what the american media portrays us as......we are a friendly people up here to the north. Drive safe !!

C.

[gbush]

Jim time for an update! We enjoy your posts.