Day 8: Robert Service CG/Whitehorse, YT to Tombstone Mountains CG on the Dempster Hwy

The rest of our evening at the the RSCG was great. Mark and I took a walk on the 5K nature trail at 11 pm. Here is the footbridge that crosses the Yukon River right across from our camp site.

And here is one of the famous paddle boats that ran along the Yukon River back in the day. The photo was taken at about 11:30 pm.

Fantastic Mr. Fox bid us farewell. He also made it quite clear that he wanted some of our breakfast.

Off we rode, our destination Dawson City. The riding was uneventful. In Dawson City, we checked on road conditions for the Dempster Highway, which would take us to the Arctic Circle and on up to Inuvik. Things looked ok and the road report was good, so we decided to get started that evening, and rode about 45 miles up the dirt road to the Tombstone Mountains. On our way, it started to rain a bit. The nature of this dirt road is such that if it is wet, it is as slick as ice. I had read about it being an impossible task to ride this road on a motorcycle in the rain. I learned how slippery it was as I walked around the campground and nearly took a spill on several occasions. As I got ready to fall asleep, I heard two not-so-old men snoring (Mark and Porkchop) and it began raining in earnest, pouring, in fact! Distance today: 649 kilometers