Mary and I hitch from Fairbanks to Eagle, float a canoe to Circle, then hitch back to Fairbanks.
This is episode three. Read the first and second episodes.
This is episode three. Read the first and second episodes.
August 2013 - Yukon River
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After the meek Pio and effusive Gabrielle disappeared from Jack Wade's Junction in a cloud of gravel dust, we cinched our packs and headed up the road towards Eagle, 67 miles onward at the terminus of this high gravel route. Two miles in we stopped to have a seat and appreciate the expansive view to the east of the Canadian border. Despite an unseemly amount of scanning the horizon, that swath of hewn trees marking the boundary between Canada and the USA did not show. We wondered if the practice of clearcutting along the 49th parallel is not perpetuated at the Alaska - Canada border, where we were observing, along the 141st meridian west.
