Alaska Day's 7 and 8...Still going North!

Day 7 Friday July 20^th, Left Dawson Creek at 8:30am clear sky’s no wind .

After we left Dawson Creek, we drove and saw lots of road and trees,the town of Fort St John was a small town as well as Ft Taylor we breezed past Pink mountain and then we arrived at Fort Nelson 285 miles later, Stopped for Gas, not much there,so we said lets keep going, maybe 45 miles out of town and in the middle of nowhere we had road construction, the road was being paved over a 10 mile span, lots of dust and rocks as well as oil, what a mess, we were going to stay at a place called Toad River, but it was too much and Bob was wondering what did we get ourselves into, then we saw a little park on the side of the road called Stone Mountain Summit Lake. This place is gorgeous!

Summit Lake is at an elevation of 4250 feet it is the highest point on the Alaska Highway!

Bob and I went in the lake after our long day, it was cold but felt great, Zippie loved it.

We meet the nicest camp host as well here. Told us were the cheap gas is on our way to Fairbanks.

The Sun stayed up until late, the sun started to go down around 11:30pm. Around 2am Zippie started to growl and when I looked out the big back window there was the biggest Moose I ever saw right next to the trailer, Zippie was going nuts, it just keep going across the lake to the other side. That was awesome!

Yes that's me and YES it was COLD!

Day 8 Sat July 21^st, We left 9am from Summit Lake, we had only got about 5 miles from the camp and saw a caribou running along the road. As we drove North to Alaska, we drove by towns called Toad River, and a big beautiful lake called Muncho Lake, known for its beautiful deep green and blue waters. We stopped and Bob to try his hand at fishing (no bites) as we headed toward Watson Lake, we came up on a heard of Buffalo on the road, 2 black bears,and some more Caribou. We also had the Liard River along side of us most of the time and once again Bob wanted to try his luck at fishing ( again nothing)

We went by towns  places called Coal River, and Contact Creek, this is where we got the cheapest gas, 135.9 a liter compared to 179.9 a liter. So far we have spent $1100.00 in gas.( I hope we can make it home) The gas stations will charge a 10% mark up if you use American cash. This really got Bob's goat! We finally got to Watson Lake, where we were going to stay when we started to drive to the RV park it turned into a long dirt road with washboard ground, needless to say we turned around before we got to the end. We did stop by the world famous Watson Lake Signpost Forest. We found a nice place with WIFI ya! Called Baby Nugget RV Park in the town of Nugget City just up the road a ways.

Muncho Lake

Watson Lake signposts

And a Buffalo