Day 52
We made it up the hill; in fact it was not the toughest hill we have ever climbed: the hill outside of Rockey Harbour in NL is steeper (but much shorter) and the hill on US interstate 80 westbound out of Salt Lake City is only 10% but was done in very high temps, making it harder.
Today we drove 492 km from AK BC YT BC YT and ended up in Nugget City (intersection of Hwy 37 and Alaska Hwy); except for Hwy 8 from Carcross to Jakes Corners, we had travelled on all these roads some time previously in this trip. Having now travelled to and from Alaska I can now confirm Carole's quote: "All roads in Alaska are paved; just not all at the same time". The truth is the roads are not that bad, and all the horror stories people tell about bad roads in the Yukon and Alaska are really just tall tales.
You may be wondering what the attached picture is all about. That is us driving into Baby Nugget Campground; the lowest cloud in the center of the picture is not really a cloud, that is smoke from the forest fires in central BC. At this campground we could actually smell the smoke, and I think that had a role in our vote to avoid the Cassiar Hwy tomorrow. Today one caravan went southbound with a pilot car at 11 am; no guarantees for tomorrow - it would all depend on the wind direction and strength. Many of the fire fighters were camped in the same campground. They were letting this 5o K acres fire burn itself out and they were only dealing with the periphery.
So we are skipping Hyder and planning to get to Jasper as per our original itinerary.
The weather has finally warmed up - today we were back in shorts for the first time in about 3 weeks, and yes it was sunny all day.
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