September 1993 - Vancouver Island to Alaska

We packed camping gear and our cat in the truck and left Vancouver Island.

Here are miscellaneous pictures from that trip in no particular order.
The images were scanned so the quality is not as crisp as more recent images. 

• Cassiar Highway in British Columbia
• Alaska Highway in Yukon
• Kluane Lake, Yukon
• Alaska Highway north of Kluane Lake
• Dempster Highway, Yukon
• Dawson City, Yukon
• Klondike Highway, Yukon
• Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
• Denali Highway - Cantwell to Paxson, Alaska
• Richardson Highway to Valdez, Alaska
• Valdez, Alaska
• Haines, Alaska
• Alaska State Ferry from Haines to Skagway

Cassiar Highway 

More of this route through B.C. here.

Bear Glacier on Highway 37A 

Boya Lake on the northern area of the Cassiar Highway

Camping at Boya Lake

On the Alaska Highway northbound after turning off the Cassiar Highway

Roadside stop on the Alaska Highway

Sue and my cat at the Signpost Forest in Watson Lake, Yukon

Kluane Lake

More recent pictures of the Kluane Lake area here.

Hiking up to Soldier's Summit beside Kluane Lake

At Soldier's Summit reading the historical information overlooking Kluane Lake

Plaque at Soldier's Summit

Slim's River on the west side of Kluane Lake viewed from Sheep Mountain

Hoodoos on Sheep Mountain

Another view from Sheep Mountain during our hike on Sheep Creek Trail

Kluane Lakeshore beside Congdon Creek Campground

Kluane Lake - hiking along the shore from Congdon Creek Campground

Kluane Lake shore

Alaska Highway north of Kluane Lake

See more recent photos of the Alaska Highway north of Kluane Lake here

Old truck at Snag, a historical site south of Beaver Creek

Beaver Creek is where the Alaska Highway was joined in 1942

Sign at the Alaska border on the Alaska Highway

Dempster Highway

See more of the Dempster on my page dedicated to that route, with recent photos.

Sign at the start of the Dempster Highway

Sign at Tombstone Mountain outlook

View over Tombstone Mountain from the Dempster Hwy

At the Arctic Circle

Steve and our cat at the Arctic Circle

Driving on the Dempster Highway

In 1996 we drove to Inuvik for the longest day of the year. See those photos on my Dempster page.

Dawson City

Visit my page dedicated to Dawson City for more photos

Palace Grand Theatre in Dawson City

At the Robert Service Cabin

At the paddlewheel graveyard along the Yukon River north of Dawson

That's me hugging one of the paddlewheels

Looking over one of the paddlewheelers that was collapsing

Vehicle ferry on the Yukon River by Dawson City

Northwest Mounted Police gravesite at Dawson City

View of the Yukon River north of the Midnight Dome at Dawson City

Klondike Highway

See here for more recent and better quality images of the South Klondike Highway.

View from South Klondike Highway, north of Skagway

Tagish Lake beside the Klondike Highway, north of Tagish

Tent camping near Carcross and it snowed overnight!  

Below are pictures of the North Klondike Highway - see more recent photos of the North Klondike,

On the North Klondike Highway, sign at the rest area for the Tintina Trench

I looked for the Tintina Trench ... this is what I saw

Historical site - Montague House

Historical site - Montague House

Five Finger Rapids alongside the Klondike Highway

Sign above the Pelly River

Denali National Park and Preserve

Visit my Savage-Teklanika page here for Denali Park and Mount McKinley in 2010.

A clear day but the film camera didn't capture the distant Mount McKinley

We got off the park bus and hiked a bit

See the ground squirrel?


View along the Denali Park Road

View from Eielson Visitor Center in Denali Park

A grizzly bear taking advantage of the fall berries before hibernation

Another view from the road in the park

Denali Highway

The gravel Denali Highway travels from Cantwell to Paxson. The scenery was stunning.
During our 2010 trip we did not drive this road because it was raining and overcast.

Richardson Highway to Valdez

In 2010, we did this route again.

Worthington Glacier viewed from the Richardson Highway -- see our 2010 trip for more pictures

Looking down from the Worthington Glacier 

Pipeline

Valdez and more Valdez in 2010

Tank farm at the Valdez Terminal

Ship at the Valdez terminal

Haines, Alaska

View from our campsite at Haines, Alaska

On the water at Haines, Alaska

Alaska State Ferry from Haines to Skagway

On the ferry between Haines and Skagway 

Approaching Skagway

Arriving at Skagway, AK