The Trip Across More Than Half of Canada

When you look at the 6500 km that leads from Elliot Lake to Anchorage, you soon realise that, with stops along the way, it is probably going to take 2 weeks just to get there. At the same time, you think you will be in the mountains some time in Alberta, probably just north of Edmonton- well....Wrong!, You actually follow the Rocky Mountain Trench and this goes on until you are north or north west of Fort Nelson. Similarly, you think the Alcan (Alaska Hwy) will be a rough track and in effect it is a smooth paved road with the odd area under repair. Fuel gradually gets more expensive as you get more to the north, until in Dawson City, actually on the klondike Hwy, it is $1.25 per litre.
You certainly get to see the diverse make up of our great land, from the PreCam Shield of Ontario - takes 2.5 days to get west of that - to the magnificent Prairies, another 2 days minimum, and then the mountains, at last!
There are interesting places enroute and signs of various industries that keep our economy humming. Tourism has become a big factor, and then the potash and grain of Sakatchewan. Oil and Gas in Alberta, and you can smell this as you pass by Dawson Creek and Fort St. John.
The first mountain area you reach is the Stone mountain area north of Fort Nelson. The Alaska Hwy goes through an area called Steamboat, and there is a small settlement there by that name.
These latest photos are of that area and Munch Lake, where we stayed the night with our back door looking over the lake. there is a lodge here and millions have been invested in a beautiful log building and cabins. they even have a Dash 8 that is used to fly customers up from Vancouver. not a cheap spot!