Day 17 – Saturday, May 28, 2022

Sunset last night was 11:18pm; sunrise this morning 4:23am. We get up early and have a hot breakfast since we have electricity. We pass a lovely small pond before we drive along and over the Yukon River.

 Two bear lumber away as we drive by. A couple of ground hog-like critters play chicken and narrowly escape our tires. Outside Carmacks, we stop for lunch at the ruins of the Montague House, a stage coach stop along the route to Dawson City. 

When we head more westward again along the Alaska Highway, more snow-covered mountains come into view. The clouds still play their part in the display, but it’s our first day with no rain. 

We are camped at Congdon Creek Campground on Kluane Lake. Along the lake we see 2 more bear and a family of mountain sheep (to go with the 2 moose and 1 deer we saw earlier). This is the only campground in the Yukon that has an electric fence surrounding the tent camping area to protect the campers from bears! We are safe in our hard-sided RV. I am reminded of 2 favorite cartoons. Gary Larson, I am pretty sure drew the one with the bears standing over the sleeping campers in their sleeping bags with one bear telling the other, “My favorite, sandwiches.” The other cartoon is two young men in their tent with a bear just outside. One guy says to the other, “Zip it, Chuck. Zip it!” I wish I could remember who created that one. Bears aside, the lake with the Kluane Range and Icefield in the background it breathtaking.