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November 7, 2009
Day Twelve
Friday September 25, 2009
Our southbound journey continued on this day as we took a slight detour to Carcross to visit the Carcross Desert, which is one of those appearance based names cause it's not really a desert at all. It looks marginally like a desert as it sort of has dunes and does have lots of sand but in no way has the limited precipitation and humidity needed for a desert. The 'desert' is actually sand that was deposited by the remnants of several lakes from the last glacial period.
From Carcross you can continue south to Skagway or head east (as we did) to meet up with the Alaska Highway once more. We continued east until we were almost at Watson Lake and then turned southwards on the start of the Stewart-Cassiar Highway. This highway travels through northern British Columbia and is surrounded by incredible mountain landscapes and very few towns or other signs of people with the exception of old logging roads and abandoned (or somewhat abandoned) mining operations.
We arrived at Boya Lake Provincial Park just before sunset and only a week before they were closing for the season. Our camp was set up on a site overlooking the lake, and it may not have been summer, but the temperature was much more comfortable than what we'd left in the Yukon. I'll run the risk of sounding like a broken record but there is nothing quite as relaxing as having your camp set up and a meal made in time to watch the sunset.
End of day twelve.
Posted by Dr.Unk at November 7, 2009 11:28 AM
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