Destruction Bay

49 degrees this morning with the sun shining.  It is going to be a beautiful day as we head south.

Breakfast at the campground

We start out with gravel

and then pavement with patches and loose gravel

The Alaska Range with snow

Clear the entire way

The 66-mile trip took 1:45 minutes

Turn south Captain....we are headed to the Yukon

70 miles from the Canadian Border

No cell service

Views of the Wrangell Mountains

Poles are in Muskeg and look like they are ready to sink

Port Alcan US Customs 

Welcome to the Yukon

It's another 20 miles to the Canada-US International Border

There is a narrow clearing which marks the border

The 20-foot swath cut by surveyors from 1904 to 1920 along the 141st meridian (from Demarcation Point on the Arctic Ocean south 600 miles to Mount St Elias in the Wrangell Mountains) to mark the Alaska-Canada border to be exact.....

Beaver Creek Canada Customs Station

St Elias Wrangell Mountains

No construction through Beaver Creek....good sign

Klune Lake

Horseshoe Bay is dry

CAUTION:  High dust area.....Watch for bumps, dips, damaged pavement and gravel breaks....be prepared to stop!!!!

Follow the Pilot Truck

Road work for the next 96 miles

Pilot Truck has stopped....what's up....

Oh, another pilot truck leading a group coming by

Finally Destruction Bay where we spent the night

Day 91.....6,189 miles on the Coach and today's temperature has been in the 50's......We are finished with major construction on the Alaska Highway.  Fix the Captain a Scotch!!!

Ever since the Alaska Highway was first punched through the wilderness in 10 short months in 1942, this war-time road has been under reconstruction.

According to Public Works Yukon, much of the soil along the north Alaska Highway is of glacial origin and unsuitable for road embankments.  "Anything that causes the permafrost to melt will cause the ice-rich soil to liquefy, and liquid soil has little strength and will settle or subside.  Then if this soil refreezes during lower air temperatures, it will expand or heave."

What they are saying if you are in road construction work in the Yukon you will always have a job!!!