Sharp's Travels

We are traveling the Alaskan Highway along the snow covered Coast Mountain range today. The wild flowers called fireweed is in bloom along the roadside. It’s a real pretty deep pink in color. There is some yellow are little arctic poppies mixed in. It’s just beautiful.

We stopped for our first break at mile 83. Spike passed out the itinerary for our 4 day stay in Skagway and they took pictures of all the dogs on this trip, 14 in all. Spike wants to post it on his site.

Off we go again. We pulled into Teslin for our lunch break about 12:30. Most of us fueled up here and then had lunch in our rigs.

There was a beautiful museum there also. It has all the wildlife displayed that is in the area. The taxidermist did a wonderful job. It is so life like. We spent about an hour there before we pushed on.

The countryside was so beautiful. Spike does such a wonderful job narrating the trip. Some of the lakes we went by had mirrored images in them. Just like glass. Our roads are very good today. We could move right along.

We went through the community of Tagish where Michelle Phillips lives. She is one of the lady mushers that drive in the Yukon Quest dog sled race. We saw a dog team in training. They were pulling a sled on wheels right along a trail by the road.

We took a 10 minute photo break after going through Carcross before making that last trek down into Skagway. It was an 8 % grade downhill and we had lots of twists and turns but we all made it ok. Spike lead us to the campground entrance and the owner parked us one by one.

We walked to a nearby restaurant to eat with the Wiley’s. It was Griffin’s birthday so he got to pick the place. We had excellent meals and then returned to the camp for birthday cake.

It doesn’t begin to get dark here until 11:30 so we decided to walk up town and check of the stores. None of them were open of course but we know right where we want to go tomorrow!

Gay has uploaded pictures of the day. See album: Watson Lake to Skagway