{"id":23219,"date":"2009-09-04T16:30:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T23:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2016-09-12T18:35:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:35:58","slug":"fall-colours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/fall-colours\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Colours"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was happy to get today off, but not so much as when I realised that, hey, my day off coincided with my one year anniversary of being on the road! I didn’t hesitate to pack up a picnic and head back up the Dempster to Tombstone<\/a> to see the fall colours! I was a little bit late as the colours are fading, but I did manage to get a few good shots. I also decided to rehike the Grizzly Creek Trail, sans 30lb pack, and discovered along the way that I’m sick and tired of climbing UP and I need a break from climbing mountains. \ud83d\ude00 To add to my disappointment, the pictures I took from the summit are all washed out and don’t do justice to the landscape. Bah. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

En route, I stopped at the Klondike River Lodge for a coffee and ran into my Chilkoot guides yet again<\/a>! Not much later, I ran into my cyclist friends whom I’d met on the Top of the World highway<\/a>. What a small world for such big country!<\/p>\n

On the way back, I picked up a young guy I’d met at the camping this week. He looks like a complete punk, but he had wowed me with his impeccable manners. I hate to judge a book by its cover, but I wouldn’t have picked him up had I not met him before. I’m glad I did because he had the funniest story to tell. We somehow got on the subject of stupid questions tourists asked and his favourite was “What do you guys do with the ice bridge?” To which he replied: “We take a big saw and cut it up into chunks. Every resident of Dawson has to keep at least three chunks in their freezer all summer and then the bridge is reassembled the next winter.” Hee hee!<\/p>\n

It was a grey, drizzly day, but, still, what a spectacular anniversary!<\/p>\n

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okay, this was worth the climb \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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