-- From the USA/Canada border to Canada-USA
The road tracklog
from border to border
from 2011/06/11 to 2011/06/14
From the USA-Canada border to the Canada-USA border
Ah the beautiful days, still a divine day... I saw a bald eagle in the USA, a black bear and waterfalls with an impressing flow in Canada. Between the two sights I crossed the border without control in the USA and with a stamp and some questions justifying of the customs officer's function in Canada. This day was in spite of very gloomy, covered weather, snow, cold, a pass at approximately 1100 meters high and landscapes announcing the far north with scattered trees. For pictures in the USA to see the travelog of the USA.
Black bear
Hwy #3
11/06/2011
Million Dollar Falls
Hwy #3
11/06/2011
Sunday June 12 was sunny when I arrived in Haines Jct, crossroads between Alaska Hwy, Hwy # 1 & Haines Hwy, Hwy # 3. At the Visitor Centre I collected booklets and traversed the very interesting Interpretive Centre exhibiting the area with First Nations, Tutchone, and the arrival of settlers of which the very undertaking Jack Taylor. Then I strolled in the village looking for seldom sights.
Tutchone
Haines Jct
12/06/2011
Jack Dalton, un colon
Haines Jct
12/06/2011
Antler Street Sign
Haines Jct
12/06/2011
Village Square
Haines Jct
12/06/2011
Carrefour Hwy #1 & Hwy #3
Haines Jct
12/06/2011
I entered the catholic church, the religious office was in hand. At its end the faithful cordially accommodated me by offering me coffee and biscuits. Of course I was the object of many questions, the deacon and other people spoke French. It was a great moment of user-friendliness, I learned that at the airport a plane whose pilot is a Frenchwoman, flew over the glaciers.
Our Lady of the Way, Catholic Church
Haines Jct
12/06/2011
I went there, a departure was announced with already three participants I were the fourth. Occupying the place of the co-pilot I had a superb sight on the glacier fields, alas the windscreen was tinted betraying the colour of pictures. For my feast day, St Guy, it were one day unforgettable as the previous year in Australia by flying over Uluru for my 70th birthday. I bivouacked in Haines Jct to publish my Internet site.
Kaskawulsh Glacier
Haines Jct
12/06/2011
Glacier Junction
Haines Jct
12/06/2011
On the move towards the Canada-USA border I stopped at the Interpretive Centre Tachäl Dhäl to document me. I met a hostess from Quebec who showed me with binocular Dhal sheep on the mountain. On her advicel I undertookn by this beautiful day a trek of 10 km return with elevation gains of 430 meters carried out in 2 hours 35 minutes pause lunch deduced. Of course I did not meet Dall sheep on my way, I should satisfy me with a picture take in the Centre. Landscapes were splendid, I were alone on the trail. At the return after the debriefing with the hostess I decided to find a bivouac at the edge of Kluane Lake.
Mouflon de Dall
Tachäl Dhäl Interpretive Centre
13/06/2011
trek
13/06/2011
Map of trek
trek
13/06/2011
Sheep Creek Trail
trek
13/06/2011
A'ay Chu River
trek
13/06/2011
Bird's eye view
trek
13/06/2011
I left with regret the shore of the Lake Kluane to cross the border and to enter again Alaska. On the way there was only one sight Kluane Museum of Natural History in Burwash Landing, alas it was closed due to restoration! Outside two structures attracted despite everything my attention, a huge Gold Pan and a Caterpillar bulldozer of US Engineer Regiment which worked for eight months from March 1942 to November 1942 to build Alaska Canada Hwy # 1 from Dawson Creek in Canada to Fairbanks in Alaska. This road of approximately 1500 miles was strategic during the Pacific War, it was a challenge for which dollars ran freely. I lunched at the edge of a lake in the rain.
Petrol station
Destruction Bay
14/06/2011
Gold Pan
Burwash Landing
14/06/2011
US Engineer Regiment
Burwash Landing
14/06/2011
In the rain
Stone Axe Handle Lake
14/06/2011
Border crossing, enter Alaska
Of course no check at Canada border, but at USA border to enter again Alaska the control was effective but symbolic because the officer checked that my passport was already recorded and the visa obtained at Skagway validated, duration 5 minutes. I carried on my road to find a bivouac at 17 km further away. But I had omitted to delay my clocks of one hour, I stopped too early. Look at the Alaska travelog for the trip continuation.
