{"id":21582,"date":"2009-06-04T13:42:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T20:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2016-09-11T16:47:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T13:47:50","slug":"into-the-klondike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/into-the-klondike\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Klondike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was glad for the long stop (and hard hike) at Five Finger Rapids because after, there were few places to stop. Pelly Crossing marked the halfway mark, mileage-wise, and I had been on the road for four hours already. I stopped shortly after there for lunch, then swung north at Stewart Crossing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1621\" title=\"cimg0100\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg0100.jpg\" alt=\"cimg0100\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The side of the highway featured hundreds of beaver-dam-like structures. I suspect the wood was cut for fire suppression purposes:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1622\" title=\"cimg0102\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg0102.jpg\" alt=\"cimg0102\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gravel Lake was a lovely spot to rest for a bit:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1623\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1623\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1623\" title=\"cimg0110\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg0110.jpg\" alt=\"Gravel Lake\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gravel Lake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The views of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadiangeographic.ca\/magazine\/ja07\/feature_tintina_trench.asp\">Tintina Trench<\/a> were legendary:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1624\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1624\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1624\" title=\"cimg0118\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg0118.jpg\" alt=\"view from the Tintina Trench pull out\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">view from the Tintina Trench pull out<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Shortly thereafter, after a lifetime of yearning, I reached the Klondike:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1625\" title=\"cimg0121\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg0121.jpg\" alt=\"cimg0121\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1626\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1626\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1626\" title=\"cimg0122\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg0122.jpg\" alt=\"the Klondike River\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the Klondike River<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I paused shortly thereafter to take my first steps onto the Dempster Highway, the road that leads to Inuvik, NWT, the furthest point you can drive north year round in Canada:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1627\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1627\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1627\" title=\"cimg0128\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg0128.jpg\" alt=\"first steps on the Dempster\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">first steps on the Dempster<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I really hope to scrape together the funds to make it up to Inuvik, but just being there at the road&#8217;s beginning was more than than I ever expected I&#8217;d get to do.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1628\" title=\"cimg0129\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg0129.jpg\" alt=\"cimg0129\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Twenty kilometres from the Dempster\/Klondike Junction was my stop for the night, the YTC (Yukon Territory Campground) at Klondike River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was glad for the long stop (and hard hike) at Five Finger Rapids because after, there were few places to stop. Pelly Crossing marked the halfway mark, mileage-wise, and I had been on the road for four hours already. I stopped shortly after there for lunch, then swung north at Stewart Crossing. The side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,1126,635,1294,5,1368,3,1040],"tags":[853,1472,1469],"class_list":["post-21582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-dawson-city-yukon-canada-travel","category-north-america","category-pelly-crossing","category-rving","category-stewart-crossing","category-travel","category-yukon","tag-accommodation","tag-dempster-highway","tag-klondike-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}