ZR-1 Alaskan Adventure Travel Log

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On Saturday, our underway was delayed due to a dead battery. Apparently I bumped the courtesy light switch and they were on overnight. Luckily, my Emergency Road Service works in Canada and I got a service truck to give me a jump start.

We left Whitehorse and headed east on the Alaska Highway. The weather was similar to the last few days, cool in the morning with cloud cover; The landscapes east of Whitehorse are beautiful:


The were a few more cars and campers on the road today, but we still had the road to ourselves most of the time:


We turned south onto the Cassiar Highway to head down to the Canadian Rockies. The Cassiar Highway is a lightly traveled route with very few settlements and services. The road surface is excellent, but narrow and unlined:


We entered an area that was heavily burned by a large forest fire last year. The fire area was very large, and a local resident told us that the Cassiar Highway was closed for 4 months after the fire:




We came upon an accident scene. The previous afternoon, a camper had driven off the roadway. The man was not injured, but the crew was removing parts of the camper from the lake: