Toad River, BC

We slept in a little this morning and left Fort St.John at 8:30AM. We are spending the night at Toad River – Mile 422 of the Alcan Hwy. We have driven 2, 444 miles since we left Kristy’s house a week ago today.

We found the 30 Ft lumber jack that must have left his gold pan and skis in previous towns we have been through. We took a picture of Suicide Hill as it looked when the Alcan Hwy was first built. First sign approaching the road used to be "Suicide Hill". The second sign used to read “Prepare to meet your maker”. Thankfully the road is a lot better today. We do keep running into road construction sites where we get led a distance by a pilot car. Waits are usually about 15 minutes.

We saw quite a bit of wildlife today. We saw a cute fox on our way out of Fort John. We saw our first bear near the Steamboat Mountain Summit. We saw a young caribou. We saw stone sheep at Summit pass.

The highest point on the Alcan Highway is at Summit Pass (4,250 ft). That’s about the elevation of Mi-Wuk, we’re thinking. You would think it would be much higher. There is a lovely lake there called Summit Lake.

We plan to spend some time at Liard Hot Springs in the morning. I think we might be in Yukon Territory tomorrow…