Day 26 Leaving Dawson Creek on the Alaska Highway

We have been in Dawson Creek now for two days and have had time to clean and wash the truck, sweep out the camper really good, bathe Sparky, get the propane tanks filled and take a road break.  We visited the Alaska Highway Museum and found it quite informative with lots of good photo exhibits and a documentary of the building process and problems.  Considering the challenges and unknowns, it is pretty amazing that they were able to build 1533 miles of road through terrain that, in itself was challenging, but also under conditions that none of the engineers had ever seen before.
So, tomorrow morning, we start at milepost 0, to cover in 12 days of fairly easy driving, what it took them only 8 months to build.  The road is totally different and improved over what they ended up with in Nov.. 1942, but is essentially the same route.
0 down, 1533 to go
With the prediction of rain today, which was minor, we took a side trip yesterday to Tumbler Ridge and on to Kinuseo Falls in the Monkman Provincial Park.  The 90 minute drive took us through some good looking farm land then into the low mountains where there were over 200 wind generators on the long low ridges.  When we finally turned off Route 52, we still had about 45 miles to travel, all but three gravel.  We passed a coal generation plant on the way.  But when we got to the falls, we were surprised.  The falls are taller than Niagara though certainly not the volume of water.  Spectacular is about all that suffices.  While there, we watched a flight seeing trip via helicopter come in and approach the falls very close.  We hiked about 3 miles while there to get some pictures from different spots including more straight on shots.  Wouldn't want to make that hike near dusk as the mosquitoes were hungry while we were there in mid afternoon.  It made for a late dinner, but well worth it.
Kinuseo Falls
The next five days or so, we will likely be in and out of areas where we might find internet so don't know when I might be able to add another post.  From the reports of others ahead of us, it is becoming much more likely to see wildlife.  If so, I hope we have time for some pictures.

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  1. UnknownJuly 13, 2017 at 5:52 AM

    Truly appreciate and enjoy your updates ... and photos. Do you anticipate the number of other campers to drop off as you get farther North? I guess you're entering the part of the trip where the old saying, "the journey is the destination," becomes even more true. Though, of course, Alaska is also the destination. :-) Travel safely.

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