Whitehorse to Dawson City, YT.

This badboy (left) is actually larger than 2 can eat but was TRULY the BEST Cinnamon Bun yet! It can be purchased on the Klondike Hwy at Braeburn Lodge - Mile 55. Yum! Yum! Yum!

The drive from Whitehorse to Dawson City was totally different from the past couple day as there were no snow covered mountains to ah and ow over. The road was more narrow than the Alaska Hwy, more curvy, bumpy, holes not patched yet and a whole section being worked on now. It is understandable considering the road was only a trail until 1950. Actually it was the very trail that the Klondike Gold Rushers used in1897-98.

Domed Mts. (see, each mountain looks rounded, i.e. domed)

Lake LaBerge, above, was made famous by Robert W. Service, the local poet Laurette in Dawson City. Those familiar with Robert Service may recall the lines from is poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee". "The Northern Lights have seen queer sights. But the queerest they ever did see, was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam McGee". You SKP's may have heard Scott Bonis recite this poem for us at Ham-O-Rama.

Pelley Crossing, River Bridge (the "dots" you might see are rain drops. Yep, it does rain up in the north, however, for the most part the rains only last a short time. I love the texture and various colors.

The Pudding Stone Mountains are made up of conglomerate not found in this area. The conglomerate is sometimes called "puddingstone" because of the appearance of pebbles welded into solid masses of varying sizes by natural cement. Composition of the cementing materials varies as does the size and composition of the pebbles, thus the wavy, bumpy look to these mountains.

Above is Fox Lake, Cranberry Point.

The lake is a migration spot for birds, ducks
and swans. Showy Locoweed & Vetch along a lot of the highway. Love it!

This my friends is the head of an Alaskan dandelion.


Five Fingers Rapids was named by earlier miners because of the rock pillars creating channels or fingers causing the rapids. Today the pillars and rapids continue to be a navigational hazard.

Showy Locoweed

Almost the entire road side was full of the purples, yellows and blues of the vetch, dandelions and lupins. There may not have been snow capped mountains, but I'll take flowers any day. I have had so much fun photographing such beautiful Yukon flowers.


The White River has a collection of white ash which the Milepost states is from 1,250 years ago when a layer of white volcanic ash coated a third of the southern Yukon. Sometimes geology is difficult for me but even the bottom of uprooted trees were all white in the root area.TTFN, Karen and Don