We stayed at Snag Junction CG (campground) last night and slept in till 930. It was so quiet I woke up in the middle of the night to savor the silence. Hoping to see the Northern Lights on this trip we’ve had no luck due to the rainy and cloudy summer. We’ve had only a few nights with star studded skies and last night was perfectly clear but still no polar lights. To my understanding it’s usually a spring or fall phenomenon.
The wildlife viewing from the highway is meager and the views of the mountains, landscape, trees and lakes are majestic. Luck would strike in the view of a coyote (or is it a fox) considering crossing the road. We stopped to watch him but he ran back into the bushes, caught a small rodent and proceeded to play with it before devouring the rascal. Several artic ground squirrels can be seen along the roadside as well.
We spoke too soon about the meager wildlife viewing because as we approached Whitehorse, right on the side of the road was a mother grizzly and her cub eating berries. Exquisite is all we can say. We instantaneously became slack-jawed gawkers.
We boondocked at the Walmart in Whitehorse with all of the other huge RVs and had one of the quietest nights ever. One guy had a weather station mounted on his RV with an enclosed satellite dish and towing an SUV. The thing had to have 600 sq. ft. of room.
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