The Zoo Came Too!

Today was a long day, we figured since everything was so fast going, we would go a little longer and make some progress, hoping to get home a little sooner. We drove from Whitehorse, YT all the way to Fort ?Nelson.

From Whitehorse to Watson Lake we didn't have much for events, just endless amounts of hills, mountains and snowy roads. There were a lot of elk and caribou, conveniently located just beyond their signs, so thankfully we got a chance to see them! When we got to Watson Lake, we stopped at the sign forest where people have left signs from where they are from, tonz of MN signs! We then stopped at the little grocery store in town and got lunch and dinner for the long drive ahead.

On our trip from Watson Lake to Fort Nelson, we saw so many animals!

• Black Wolf
• Bison, bison on the road, bison sleeping on the road. There was an oncoming semi at one point and left a cloud of snow dust, as we were coming out of that dust, there were bison LAYING on the road.
• Elk, Caribou, Moose, Snow shoe rabbits, weird white pigeons.

After the zoo of animals, the long and white knuckled 7 hour pass through the mountains began, just as it was getting dark. The pass was winding and narrow, snow covered roads, steep up hills, steep downhills, way too many fast semi trucks - all in a hurry to get somewhere and made the driving a bit hairy, creating white snow dust clouds yet again...

At the end of the night as we were coming around the last passes, I spotted the northern lights in the clear, cold sky. It made a perfect ending to the trialing day we had. It was almost a reward for what we had just accomplished.

After all that, we pulled in to our hotel in Fort Nelson around 11pm, ready to sleep the night away. And to wake up and drive to Edmonton in the morning...