Day 15: Snag Creek CG to Whitehorse, YT

We hopped right back on the road headed south in the morning. This is one of my favorite stretches of road, but it has a lot of damage and frost heaves, so the going is bumpy. Kluane Lake comes into view with high snow covered peaks in the distance, and it is hard to stay on the road because the scenery is so stunning. I think I would ride all the way up here again just to be on this piece of road on a clear day. We passed a campground where we’d stayed back in 2009, but it was closed because of bear activity this time--good thing we’d camped up north! A mandatory stop on this stretch is in Haines Junction. There is a place called the Village Bakery in town, and if you elect to pass this by, well, your life just will not be as fulfilling as it might otherwise be. On Friday nights they still have a salmon bake and live music, just like they had a few years ago. Lunch here is great, and their baked goods are top-notch. Adam, yearning for his motherland, enjoyed a classic British dish, Shepherd’s Pie, and as a dessert, not related to his home country, a reindeer sausage cheese puff thing. With Mark needing a break to change his oil in Whitehorse, we returned to our favorite hippie hot-spot, the Robert Service Campground. I also think that the guys wanted to come back here because Whitehorse is the home of a place called “The Deli”, which carries sausages of all kinds--Adam bought enough meat products to last our team the rest of the trip on his way back through town. I think Adam and Mark would travel all the way up here to go to “The Deli” again to buy some reindeer sausage. At the campground, I went for another walk on the trails here, and toured their fish ladder. The Chinook salmon are making their way back this direction from the Bering Sea, and are currently passing through Dawson City, where we were a couple of days ago. Distance today: 426 kilometers Sausages consumed thus far (this is a trip total, and Mark and Adam are mainly responsible for the damage): in excess of 50 Individuals on team suffering from protein calorie malnutrition: none