2016 Aug BC & Yukon 2

This Sign Post Forest is in Watson Lake, Yukon.  It started during the 1942 construction of the Alcan Highway.  Anyone can leave a sign.  Our Adventure Caravan group put up the sign below with all of our names on it.  There's 82,000 signs at last count.

                              Of course, I had to take this picture.  What a perfect rainbow.

We stopped at this First Nation Museum in Teslin, Yukon.  They aren't called Indians in Canada.  They are First Nation people.  This man was showing Cliff how hand drums are made.  They soak birch pieces and form the circular shell, then stretch caribou hide over the top for the drum.  It's not as easy as it looks.

Above is the Klondike steam boat in Whitehorse, Yukon.  This is actually the 2nd Klondike.  The first was destroyed by the ice on the Yukon River.  These steam boats made trips between Whitehorse and Dawson City carrying supplies up to Dawson City and gold back to Whitehorse.  It burned a cord (8 x 4 x 4 ft) of wood an hour.

Kitchen and dining room on the Klondike.

Views of and around Whitehorse, Yukon. 

This eagle was in downtown Whitehorse on the Yukon River.

More Ice Age mammals at the Beringia Museum in Whitehorse.  This scientist was extremely knowledgeable about these mammals.  The replica of the wooly mammoth above shows a knife mark on it's leg indicating humans may have been trying to hunt them. 

Below a canyon real close to our campground.  We walked across the pedestrian bridge.  Found some tree limbs that a bear had rubbed up against and left a lot of hair.  Glad we didn't run into him.

                     Hope they don't fall in.  The water is frigid cold.

Man on left talking to Cliff was First Nation member from the Northern most town in the Yukon, Old Crow.  Only accessible by plane.  He was in Whitehorse because he's the provincial representative from his area.  Whitehorse is the capitol of Yukon.  He and two friends were getting ready to take a float plane to a lake about 40 minutes from Whitehorse.  They were then going to hike up the mountain 18 miles to hunt for mountain sheep.

His friend sitting on the pier with their gear and two impressive rifles. waiting for the plane.

First Nation mom & little boy dressed as Batman.