Beaver Creek - Whitehorse (Yukon Territory, Canada)
Crossing the border into Canada also meant changing time zones. Entering a new country is like a new start!! O yea...... back to the metric system!!! Great!!! Other than that, the scenery remained much the same, endless forests, lakes, mosquitos.... just beautiful...
Date
Distance
Altitude gain
Place
23.06.2005
081 km
0415 m
Beaver Creek - Lake Creek
24.06.2005
109 km
0680 m
Lake creek - Destruction Bay
25.06.2005
140 km
1115 m
Destruction Bay - Canyon Creek
26.06.2005
129 km
0670 m
Canyon Creek - Whitehorse
27.06.2005
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Whitehorse
28.06.2005
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Kayak trip down the Yukon
29.06.2005
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Kayak trip down the Yukon
30.06.2005
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Kayak trip down the Yukon
After entering into Canada, one thunderstorm hit me after the other! But, the scenery remained amazing. At the Beaver Creek campground I met up with Clyde who had also cycled down the Dalton highway. That highway has been in our conversation nearly every day!! It burns into every cyclists heart! Clyde and I ended up cycling together, all the way to Whitehorse. Clyde and I got on well and it was amazing to hear his cycle stories. At the age of 61 he cycled through the complete australian desert and his plan as a retired person is to cycle 9 months every year.
On the second day cycling with Clyde we bumped into Carlos. Carlos has been cycling from 'Tierra del Fuego', at the bottom of Argentina right up to the top of North America. He has been on the road for 18 Months and he is just the most cheerfull person that I have met along the way! He has offered to give me as much information that I need. For instance, as a tour cyclist it is always usefull to know when the next shop will come up (to carry food for 10 days is nonsense if there is a shop down the road but to carry food for 1 day is nonsense if the next shop is 400 km away).
Clyde and I cycled on to the wonderful Lake Kluane! It is really a stunning lake! We pitched our tent right next to the lake.
We spent hours watching the sun set slowly behind the mountains.
Cycling along lake Kluane is truly wonderful except for the occasional road work construction sites. The road is sometimes in a bad condition due to the permafrost problem.
.....and on we ride!!! the Alaskan highway is never ending.....
Reaching Haines Junction...time for a pizza and then back on the bike for the evening ride to Canyon Creek another 30km further down the road.
....after another thunderstorm, the weather usually cleared quickly and it was time to change into dry weather gear again!!!
At Whitehorse, Clyde headed down to Skagway while I decided to take a break for a couple of days. I really wanted to go kayaking down the Yukon river and that is exactly what I did.....and man was it an adventure!!! really good fun!!!
....and down the river I went. The scenery and wildlife was just awesome!!
View from the kayak! It is so great to be out there all alone, watching the eagles swoop down to catch fish.
Time for a rest on a little sandy island!
My campsite on an island on the Yukon river. While cooking my noodles I could watch the beavers swim by and then watch a moose come down to the river.
...on the second day I reached Lake Laberge, a very scenic lake! I was still alone, not another boat in site!
A thunderstorm passed by, making the paddling very hard on the lake (head-wind causing waves). It was time to pitch my second camp on a little peninsula.
my second camp on my kayaking trip.
I enjoyed cooking my noodles next to Larry (the name of my kayak). It was again somewhat sad to know that the kayaking trip will end the next day. (I had someone pick me up at a certain location and time). But I knew that I will now have a new hobby. When I get back to Switzerland I will need to do more kayaking, a wonderful sport. Just my arm muscles are hurting a little, I am not used to all this paddling, but it was a wonderful trip and a great experience and a good change from days of cycling!
Beaver Creek - Whitehorse (Yukon Territory, Canada)
Crossing the border into Canada also meant changing time zones. Entering a new country is like a new start!! O yea...... back to the metric system!!! Great!!! Other than that, the scenery remained much the same, endless forests, lakes, mosquitos.... just beautiful... 
After entering into Canada, one thunderstorm hit me after the other! But, the scenery remained amazing. At the Beaver Creek campground I met up with Clyde who had also cycled down the Dalton highway. That highway has been in our conversation nearly every day!! It burns into every cyclists heart! Clyde and I ended up cycling together, all the way to Whitehorse. Clyde and I got on well and it was amazing to hear his cycle stories. At the age of 61 he cycled through the complete australian desert and his plan as a retired person is to cycle 9 months every year. 
On the second day cycling with Clyde we bumped into Carlos. Carlos has been cycling from 'Tierra del Fuego', at the bottom of Argentina right up to the top of North America. He has been on the road for 18 Months and he is just the most cheerfull person that I have met along the way! He has offered to give me as much information that I need. For instance, as a tour cyclist it is always usefull to know when the next shop will come up (to carry food for 10 days is nonsense if there is a shop down the road but to carry food for 1 day is nonsense if the next shop is 400 km away).
Clyde and I cycled on to the wonderful Lake Kluane! It is really a stunning lake! We pitched our tent right next to the lake. 
We spent hours watching the sun set slowly behind the mountains.
Cycling along lake Kluane is truly wonderful except for the occasional road work construction sites. The road is sometimes in a bad condition due to the permafrost problem.
.....and on we ride!!! the Alaskan highway is never ending.....
Reaching Haines Junction...time for a pizza and then back on the bike for the evening ride to Canyon Creek another 30km further down the road.
....after another thunderstorm, the weather usually cleared quickly and it was time to change into dry weather gear again!!! 
....and down the river I went. The scenery and wildlife was just awesome!!
View from the kayak! It is so great to be out there all alone, watching the eagles swoop down to catch fish.
Time for a rest on a little sandy island!
My campsite on an island on the Yukon river. While cooking my noodles I could watch the beavers swim by and then watch a moose come down to the river.
...on the second day I reached Lake Laberge, a very scenic lake! I was still alone, not another boat in site!
A thunderstorm passed by, making the paddling very hard on the lake (head-wind causing waves). It was time to pitch my second camp on a little peninsula.
my second camp on my kayaking trip.
I enjoyed cooking my noodles next to Larry (the name of my kayak). It was again somewhat sad to know that the kayaking trip will end the next day. (I had someone pick me up at a certain location and time). But I knew that I will now have a new hobby. When I get back to Switzerland I will need to do more kayaking, a wonderful sport. Just my arm muscles are hurting a little, I am not used to all this paddling, but it was a wonderful trip and a great experience and a good change from days of cycling!