During the first of this trip I have felt that my car was
not producing the boost is should be, there seem to some resistance in 21-2600
rpm area, while have the oil change I was inform that I failed to put the
O-ring on the end of the filter stick. Today driving the car the boost
resistance was gone, my old car was back, a small thing with a big impact
of engine performance.
All along the way, there are car park with warning flags, I
suspect berry picking. At all the
visitor centres and even on the radio, berry picking is talked about as one the
most important pastimes of the year. I
decide to pullover and have a look, wild strawberries, very little ones, no
more than a centimeter; it would take a long time to pick enough for a
pie. Here too Bitter or Slip-jack
boletes edible but not good, they need to be peeled and dried in the oven, in
the end you can still get an unhappy stomach.
Stopping next at Morley River, a point where two rivers
meet. Here too strawberries, I take pic
of flowers and watch as a fish leaps for a fly. Shortly afterward I see the
first dead forest from beetle. All the
free firewood at Yukon camp grounds was beetle killed pine trees.
Turning onto highway 37 south, you feel that this is back
way into BC, narrow winding hilly road with good pavement but no center line.
After 15km’s I reach forest fire one that last the next 30 km’s. I pull over to
look at a pond within the fire zone and see that it’s a kettle pond, small and
very deep, the side of the pond drop off right away. Kettle ponds are formed by chunks of ice the
brake off a receding glacier.
Last night I noticed that the sun went down in Whitehorse,
late but it was actually dark at 1am, heading south now I can expect earlier
nights. I pull off and look at rest area
map at Rabbit Grizzly and about 200m further down the road is a nice flat site
with fire pit, lake view and table, I pull in for the night, later while
walking to the lake for water to kill the fire I notice there is an outhouse
which check to find its fully stocked, perfect and free.
Drove just 628km today.
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