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Photo Gallery: Western Canada and Alaska

Western Canada and Alaska posts

Eau Claire River

Kabetogama Lake

Woodenfrog Campground

Kabetogama Lake

Blind Ash Bay

Sullivan Bay

Beaver Pond

Little American Island

Rainy Lake

Historic Harry Oveson Fish Camp

Rainy Lake

Rainy Lake

Rushing River Campground ON

Anicinabe Park Kenora ON

Thousands tried to get inside the car at our first wild camp

We continued our tradition of tasing local beer when traveling. This is the Winnipeg/Manitoba six-pack

Along Trans-Canada Hwy

Pelicans on Portage Spillway

Echo Valley PP Campground SK

Echo Lake

Pasqua Lake, Echo Valley PP

Tallest moose on Earth, Moose Jaw SK

Sodium sulphate mine in Chaplin SK

Peacefull rest stop in Swift Current SK

Trans-Canada Hwy (Hwy 1) in Saskatchewan

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Crossing border to Alberta

Weather appears suboptimal for camping

Little Fish Lake Campground

Dinosaur Provincial Park AB

Badlands

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Dinosaur Provincial Park Museum AB

Willow Creek Hoodoos AB

Midland Provincial Park AB

Royal Tyrrell Museum AB

Ammonite fossil

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Two Jack Lake

Lake Minnewanka

Cascade River/Stewart Canyon

Hoodos Viewpoint, Tunnel Mountain Rd

Banff Ave

Historic Banff Springs Hotel

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Banff

Johnston Canyon, Lower Falls

Upper Falls

Ink Pots

Ink Pots

Mountains above Ink Pots

Johnston Creek

Johnston Canyon

Johnston Canyon

Lake Louise (hardsided) Campground

Big Beehive above Mirror Lake

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Lake Agnes

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Lake Louise, Fairmont Hotel at the far end

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Clematis occidentalis

Lake Louise

Lake Louise, view from Fairmont Hotel site

Takakkaw Falls, Yoho NP

Takakkaw Falls, Yoho River

Emerald Lake, Yoho NP

Peyto Lake, Icefields Pkwy Banff NP

Bow Lake Banff NP

Bow River

Bow River

Bow Glacier Falls

The Wall

Mistaya River

Chephren Lake

Chephren Lake

American Globeflower (Trollius laxus) rare and endangered

Cirque Lake Creek

Cirque Lake

Bog laurel (Kalmia microphylla)

Upper Waterfowl Lake

Lower Waterfowl Lake

Waterfowl Lakes Campground

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Mistaya Canyon

Mistaya Canyon

Saskatchewan River Crossing

North Saskatchewan River

Base of Cirrus Mountain

Big Bend Viewpoint, Icefields Pky

Parker Ridge Trail

Saskatchewan Glacier

Saskatchewan Glacier Valley

Trollius laxus

Moss campion

Purple Mountain Saxifrage

Anemone multifida

Red chairs with a view

Athabasca Glacier from Wilcox Pass Trail

Trail to Wilcox Pass

View from Columbia Icefield Visitor Center

Visitors are bussed to the ice edge

Old glacier bottom

Approaching the ice edge

Ready to explore

View up towards Columbia Icefield

View down towards Icefields Pky and Visitor Center

Sunwapta River and …

… Falls

Athabasca River

Athabasca Falls

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Athabasca River

Brown bear, Icefields Pky

Our cabin at Becker’s Chalets

Athabasca River view from Becker’s Chalets

Medicine Lake

Eagle nest, Medicine Lake

Black bear, Maligne River

Maligne Lake

Maligne Lake

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Moose Lake

Busy digging-up roots and eating

Grazing

Maligne River

Side spring brings water from Medicine Lake

Maligne Canyon…

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Mt Robson, view from Visitor Center terrace

Overlander Falls

Fraser River

Mt Robson from trail along Robson River

Robson River…

…and Kinney Lake

Kinney Lake viewed from water’s edge

Robson River and Valley of Thousand Falls

Returning down Robson River valley

Kinney Lake in early evening

Mt Robson in the evening, nothing short of impressive

Next morning, breakfast at Robson Meadows campground

Rearguard Falls

Wild camping, wild salmon for dinner (not caught)

Next morning

Vanderhoof

Ksan Village Museum

Hagwilget Bridge over Bulkley River/Gorge

Sternwheeler museum in Old Hazelton

Old Hazelton

St. Paul’s Church bell tower in Kitwanga

AK-BC border sign on Granduc Rd

Strohn Lake and Bear Glacier

Glacier Hwy (37A) to Stewart

Clements Lake

Stewart Boardwalk

Granduc Rd near Premier Gold Mine

Salmon Glacier

Looking for campsite below Granduc Rd

Parked for the night (view from lateral moraine, look closer)

View from lateral moraine

Glacier ice’s edge

View after dinner

Heading back to Hyder down Granduc Rd

Misty Fjord, Hyder

Hyder fish & chips

General Store in Hyder (population 48)…

…and another one (looks closed)

Black bear hiking along Cassiar Hwy

Now fox is walking along Cassiar Hwy too

Cabin at Dease Lake

Boya Lake

Boya Lake

Another bear hiking (?)

Yukon it is

Camping off Alaska Hwy

Looks like we are west of Watson Lake

Teslin Lake and Bridge

Johnsons Crossing

Marsh Lake

Miles Canyon

Schwatke Lake

S.S. Klondike museum

Fish ladder at Whitehorse Dam

Old Log Church, Whitehorse

The Horse of Whitehorse

Carmacks Hotel

Mighty Yukon River

Five Finger Rapids, Yukon River

Klondike Highway

Wildfire destruction

Marshes and wetlands along Moose Creek

Tintina Trench

Steamboat Keno…

…stern paddle wheeler

Streets of Dawson City

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Post Office

Show at Diamond Tooth Gerties

Midnight Sky Hotel at midnight

Dredge 4

Dredge guts

Prospectors are gone

Except us and a few others

View from Midnight Dome

Jack London Museum

Ferry-crossing Yukon River

Steamboat graveyard

View from Tylor Highway

Tylor Highway

Approaching YT-AK border

Chicken (AK)

Pedro Dredge

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Top of the World Highway

Mount Fairplay

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Wild camping at “Moose Lane”

10 pm, waiting for sun to set

Next morning porcupine visit

Delta Junction

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Tanana River, Richardson Highway

Chatanika Lodge

Chatanika dredge

Pioneer Park

Museum

Vintage cars

Golden Heart Plaza

Angel Rocks

Chena River valley

Chena Hot Springs

Chena Hot Springs

Riley Creek

Riley Campground

Denali Park Road

Denali

Denali Park Road

Savage River Loop Trail

Savage River Alpine Trailhead

Savage Alpine Trail

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Arctic Gentian (Gentiana algida}

Savage Alpine Trail

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Teklanika River

Ranger Station at East Fork Toklat River

East Fork Toklat River flats

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Polychromes

Recent landslide

Caribou leads the way to Igloo Creek

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Heading into Igloo Creek bushwacking (again)

Cathedral Mountain from just below the road, arrow shows our highest point

Back on Denali Park Road

Savage River Loop Trail

Sled dogs kennels

Horseshoe Lake

Talkeetna Main Street

Talkeetna Cabin

Susitna River

Fireweed ice cream

Hatcher Pass

Hatcher Pass

Hatcher Pass

Independence MIne

Now in ruins

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Eklutna Lake

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Eklutna – spirit houses…

… cemetery

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Anchorage Museum

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Waterproof seal gut parka

Anchorage Museum

Turnagain Arm tidal flat

Alyeska Resort

Mt Alyeska top cable-car station

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Foot bridge to Glacier Bowl was closed

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Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet

Chugach Mountains

Granite Creek

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Granite Creek Campground

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Tern Lake

Crater Lake

Flowering meadows above Crater Lake

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Crescent Lake

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Crater Lake

Kenai Lake at Primrose CG

…after dinner

Exit Glacier

Exit Glacier flowing from Harding Icefield

Up…

…and up

Harding Icefield

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Sliding down along the glacier

Resurrection River at our wild camp

Exit Glacier toe

Exit Glacier valley

What used to be

Kenai Fjords Tours, Seward

Chiswell Islands

Northwestern Fjord

Notrthwestern Glacier

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Harris Bay

Resurrection Bay

Caines Head, Resurection Bay

Seward

Sea eagles

Sea lions

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Humpback whales

Porpoise

Seals

Jelly fish

Puffins

Puffins

Common murre

Black-legged kittiwake

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Kenai Lake from Trail River CG

Ptarmigan Creek valley

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Ptarmigan Lake

Tern Lake inlet

Kenai Lake

Dinner at Kenai Lake

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Kenai Lake

Grizzly at Russian River AK

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Bald Eagle

People

Salmon at Russian River Falls

Cedar plank salmon

Steamed mussels

Portage Lake

Whittier…Begich Towers…

…harbor…

…abandoned (military) Buckner Building

Portage Valley

Salmon in Williwaw Creek AK

Musk Ox

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Glenn Hwy, Matanuska River

Matanuska Glacier

Matanuska Glacier, Matanuska River

Glenn Hwy, Chugach Mountains

Camp on old/abandoned section of Lake Louise Rd

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…with good view of Tazlina Lake and Glacier in the morning

Fish wheel at Wrangell-St Elias Visitor Center

Richardson Hwy

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Worthington Glacier

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Thompson Pass

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Sunset at Sheep Creek

Camp at Sheep Creek next morning

Richardson Highway cutting through Chugach Mountains

Horsetail Falls

Need to practise salmon fishing

Port Valdez (fjord)…

…and Valdez Arm of Prince William Sound

Columbia Glacier ice flow

Columbia Glacier

Otter iceberg

Sea otters resting on iceberg

Valdez Glacier Lake

Duck (tidal) Flats

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Valdez

Kelsey Dock, Valdez Ferry Terminal

Monument for Alaska pipeline builders, Kelsey Dock

Bridal Veil Falls

Worthington Glacier

Richardson Hwy

Copper River

Fishing with small net on very long pole

Copper River

Suzie Lake

Chitina Town Lake

Hotel Chitina

Hotel Chitina

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Kuskulana Bridge

McCarthy Road

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Gilahina Trestle

McCarthy Rd Campground

Kennicott River, McCarthy, pedestrian bridge

Kennecott

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Kennecott Mill Building

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Mt Blackburn, Kennicott Glacier

Our camp…

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…view on the glacier

Trail down to Root Glacier

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…access point

Clear direction for next day

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Root Glacier

“Dirty” part in the middle

How deep is ice here?

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On the other “white” glacier arm

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Kennicott Glacier terminal lake

Kennecott

Our plane, Joanna with pilot after happy return

Railroad tracks ran here…

…good camping spot

Gilahina Trestle

Crystalline Hills

View from Crystalline Hills Trail

McCarthy Rd

Mt Blackburn from McCarthy Rd

End of McCarthy Rd in Chitina

Mt Blackburn, Willow Lake from Richardson Hwy

Caribou Creek Trail

Taiga all around

Kendesnii Campground

Good part of Nabesna Rd

Thors Pond

Trail…

…to Skookum Volcano Pass

Skookum Volcano

To go higher (Joanna)…

…or rest at the pass (Piotr)?

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Alaska Range on the other side

Alaska Range at sunset from Nabesna Mine site

Not bad here, but it was bumpy ride before and road became impassable for us shortly beyond the sign

Crossing shallow streams is easy, but people sometimes get stuck in small, loose gravel lining the bottom

Mt Wrangell from Nabesna Rd

Tok Cut-Off Hwy

Deadman Lake

Alaska Hwy

White River

Pickhandle Lake

Donjek River

Near Haines Junction

Kluane Lake

Meeting porcupine on the trail

King’s Throne

Quite steep almost scramble in places

Flattens at destination (view from Joanna’s higher vantage point)

On the way down

Kathleen Lake

Kathleen Lake CG

Rock Glacier…

…flowing into Dezadeash Lake

Dezadeash Lake

Trail to St Elias Lake

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St Elias Lake

Carcross Desert

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Lake Bennett

Carcross visitor center

White Pass & Yukon Railway

SS Tutshi Memorial

Tagish Lake

Conrad CG

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White Pass and Yukon Railway in Fraser

Summit Lake

On top of White Pass

Descending to Skagway on Klondike Hwy (Rt 98)

Dyea Bridge over Talya River

Talya River tidal mud flats

Dyea stood here

Dyea, Main St and 2nd Ave

Nothing left

Talya River washed away part of Dyea site

Palm Sunday Avalanche cemetery

Skagway

Milling around

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The Mascot Saloon

Skagway Museum

Yukatania Point, Skagway River

Yukatania Popint

Deserted streets in evening

We are done with gold rush

Captain William Moore Bridge, Alaska, Klondike Hwy

Summit Lake

Yukon Suspension Bridge over Tutshi River

Tutshi Lake

Teslin River

Teslin Lake

Signpost forest in Watson Lake

Wood bisons

Liard Hot Springs

Liard Hot Springs marshes

Alaska Hwy to Stone Mountain

Muncho Lake

Rock Sheep

Stone mountains

Erosion pillar

Summit Lake

Tetsa River

Andy Bailey Lake

Alaska Hwy, no it is not the same picture

Hudson’s Hope…

…museum

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Chetwynd

Heart Lake

Cariboo Hwy

Azouzetta Lake

Bijoux Falls

McLeod Lake

Kerry Lake

Square Lake

Green Lake

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The Chasm…

Marble Canyon

Crown Lake

Pavilion Lake

Fraser River, approaching Lillooet

Entering Coast Range

Rt 99 past Lillooet

Cayoosh Creek/Duffey Lake

Joffre Peak

First gondola ride from Whistler to Blackcomb

Blackcomb Peak to Whistler Mountain

By lift to Cloudraker Skybridge

Alta Lake, Whistler, Green Lake

Cheakamus Lake, Cheakamus Glacier-Castle Towers Mountain

Mount Garibaldi

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Whistler gondola station

Brandywine Falls

Tantalus Range

Shannon Falls

Britannia Mine Museum

Porteau Cove, Howe Sound

Horseshoe Bay to Langdale Ferry

Howe Sound from Ferry…

…Howe Sound

Sunshine Coast Highway

Porpoise Bay

Earls Cove to Saltery Bay Ferry

Ample overhead clearance here

Saltery Bay

Eagle River Falls

Powell River, on ferry to Comox

Powell River

Humpback whale

Seal Bay

Upper Campbell Lake

Buttle Lake

Karst Creek

Big trees on Wild Ginger Trail

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Ralph River CG

View from Buttle Lake shore…

…near our campground…

…Buttle Lake…

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Buttle Lake

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Thelwood Creek

Lower Myra Falls

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Trail to Upper Myra Falls

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Upper Myra Falls

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Lupin Falls

Paradise Meadows

Battleship Lake

Croteau Lake

Lake Helen Mackenzie

Forbidden Plateu-Helen Mackenzie Lake Loop

Canada Jay

Cathedral Grove…

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Wild Pacific Trail, Ucluelet

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Terrace Beach, Ucluelet

Big Beach, Ucluelet

Rainforest Trail B…

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Long Beach…

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Lismer Beach

Wickaninnish Beach

Florencia Beach…

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Kennedy Lake

Sproat Lake petroglyphs…

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Ferry to Surrey…

…leaving Vancouver Island…

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View from North Cascades Visitor Center

Skagit River

Trail of the Cedars

Skagit River

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Gorge powerhouse

Diablo Lake, view from Thunder Knob Trail

…overlook…

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Diablo Lake, Thunder Arm

Ross Lake, Ruby Arm

Sterling Miller Overlook

Lake Ann Trail…

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Lake Ann

Washington Pass Overlook,Hwy 20

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Winthrop WA

Hwy 20, Frazier Creek WA

Columbia River just downstream from Coulee Dam

Coulee Dam WA

I-90 along Clark Fork MT

MacDonald Pass/continental divide MT

Bisons

Prairie dog

Hoodoos/mushrooms along East River Road

Little Missouri River

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Wind Canyon

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Boicourt Overlook

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Buck Hill

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Jones Creek Trai

Wild horse, Jones Creek Trailhead

Along Scenic Loop Drive

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Petrified wood

Clinker formed from rock baked by burning coal vein

Horses

Pronghorns

Little Missouri River

Bisons and prairie dog city

T. Roosevelt cabin

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Heading down to petrified forest

Petrified forest

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Solitary bison looking at us

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Shortcut ahead

Mushrooms

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Petrified tree fragments everywhere

Desert cottontail

Petrified trees and mushrooms

Wild horses

West River Road, returning to camp

Mule deer

Sunset from Skyline Vista

All packed at Cottonwood Campground

Painted Canyon Trail…

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