After our big breakfast at Johnson's Crossing, we continued on toward Whitehorse, about 100 miles ahead. Along the way, rain started again, and by the time we stopped in Whitehorse to shop, the raincoats came out once more. Whitehorse is the capital of Yukon Territory and the biggest city we have been in for a long while, but it was small enough to find our way around without any trouble. Given the weather, we did not explore the town much, but we will be passing through it again on the way home so we can spend a bit more time then.
Heading toward Haines Junction, one becomes aware of bigger and bigger mountains ahead. These are the Kluane Range, in Kluane National Park. Beyond the mountains in the forefront one could glimpe even taller mountains of the St. Elias Range in the distance; some of the mountains there approach 20,000 feet!
The Alaska Highway beyond Haines Junction runs along the mountains for quite some distance until, going over a peak, one sees a huge lake ahead----Kluane Lake. Our campsite tonight is in Cottonwood RV Park, on the shore of the lake. Our back window is just yards from the water. There is a high wind today, so looking back toward the east, there's a big cloud of dust being kicked up from the wind sweeping down the mountains---in fact, while we were registering someone came into the office to ask whether it was smoke from a forest fire. The wind is also causing whitecaps on the lake, quite pretty on the bright green water.
We are now within 250 miles of Tok, Alaska, our first destination in that state!
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