In the early morning mist, we waited for our turn to get on
the ferry across the Yukon River, as did several other RV's. The ferry could only take two at a time, plus
a couple of cars so it took a while.
Some of the RV's waiting were like coaches and also towed vehicles
behind them!
The Top of the World
Highway runs from Dawson City on the Canadian side, to the US border and onto
the Taylor Highway near Chicken, Alaska.
We were literally driving along the top of the Dawson Ridge, with views
of the Yukon Valley on one side and the Ogilvie Mountains on the other. We started out in boreal forest, but that was
soon replaced by tundra with increasing elevation . The road was in reasonable shape on the
Canadian side, but that changed as soon as we crossed the border, where there
were soft patches and ruts, but they are busy fixing and widening the
highway.
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| Yukon River Valley |
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| Ogilvie Mts |
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| Tundra |
Chicken is an old gold mining "town". The
prospectors wanted to name it "Ptarmigan" but could not agree
on how to spell it, so settled on Chicken instead. The photo below shows a signpost beside the
"chicken" mascot that has other "fowl"-related town names
on it. Today the town of Chicken consists of three buildings, two RV parks and
the shell of a gold dredge.
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| "Chicken" |
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| Metropolis of Chicken |
Tok is at the end of the Taylor Highway, and the Sourdough
RV Park is situated in a forested area.
They serve up deer chili in a sourdough bowl, and blueberry pie in their
outside shelter for dinner if you are so inclined, and then the entertainment
begins - pancake toss into a "buckit" about six feet away (two tries). If you get a pancake into the "
buckit", you win a sourdough pancake breakfast with deer sausage. I had a try and hit the "buckit",
but did not get one in. Lots of fun to
watch for a while, and there were a lot of happy campers there to participate.
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