Making our way back to Alaska . . . Day 6 Final Day
This is the last day if all goes well so we awoke early to hit the road for the couple hour drive to Beaver Creek and the lodge there so we could eat breakfast. It was nippy outside in the early morning light. Haines Junction is located in a valley with mountains on the west side of town. Just over the mountains are the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean . We were on the two lane road by 4:30 am and were heading towards Kluane Lake . Notice it is already a ‘normal’ daylight outside. It was not long before we finally hit the section of road that has made the Alaskan Highway famous. We hit the gravel roadway about 10 miles from Kluane Lake . They were replacing the drainage culverts that drained all of the snowmelt from the mountains into the lake. There were many of them every 1000 feet or so. The road looked like it had actually been paved since our trips five years ago but they were torn up again now. Man was it torn up now. The best ‘spe...