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Tuesday Jul 7, 2020 #
7 PM
Orienteering 45:22 4.55 km (9:58 / km) +60m 9:21 / km
ahr:155 max:179
Made it up to Whitehorse at 3:30 in the afternoon. Just after dinner got dragged out to the war Eagle B-Meet by Forest.
Nice course, forest is on the greener side for the Yukon, with a fair bit of (small diameter) deadfall. Made some mistakes, but fairly happy given this is the first orienteering I have done all year where I did not do any of the mapping, controlling, or course planning.
Quickroute:
Nice course, forest is on the greener side for the Yukon, with a fair bit of (small diameter) deadfall. Made some mistakes, but fairly happy given this is the first orienteering I have done all year where I did not do any of the mapping, controlling, or course planning.
Quickroute:
Monday Jul 6, 2020 #
10 AM
Hiking 4:53:38 [3] 15.28 km (19:13 / km) +993m 14:30 / km
Drove from just after Steamboat to Summit Lake in the morning. Nice hike up to the first sub-summit of St George Mountain. Really nice hike starting in the Sub-Alpine (around 1200 m), getting up into the alpine pretty quickly around 1450 m, and then up into just rock above 1700 m. First couple of km were on an established trail, but it only led to a small little hill at the bottom, so I ditched it as planned and skirted my way up the ridge (GPS track visible to everyone by clicking the little globe next to the time and distance info).
Looking up the alpine onto St. George Mountain (centre). Planning on going up the left ridge route (centre-left).
The threebilly goats stone sheep gruff.
Approaching the sub-summit. In background is Summit Lake where I started at the far end. How did I take that picture?
Decided not to continue along the summit ridge to the true summit as it still had some snow on it, had some sketchy cliffs on the edges, and a storm was rolling in. If someone else had been there it looked very doable, but beyond my comfort level being by myself in the middle of nowhere.
View from the top looking NW at the Alaska Highway and McDonald Creek.
Cruised back down, catching the last 3.5km or so onto the Flower Springs trail, which was sadly somewhat lacking in flowers (it had some lupins and a few other things, but they were surprisingly scarce).
Obligatory flower picture - well above the Flower Springs trail.
After the hike continued to drive north through the rest of the mountains, stopping for dinner (for both me and the mosquitoes) on the Liard Air Strip (has not been used in what looks like decades, not even a windsock here anymore). Then continued up to just across the Yukon Border at 10:00 in the evening (sun still up) and got through border control without any problems. Went just past Watson Lake (maybe 50km), and found an old gravel pit just off the highway for overnight.
Saw around 100 Bison (they are huge), and around 50 stone sheep (not so huge, but big horns) next to or on the road while driving, after spotting 3 stone sheep on the hike.
Looking up the alpine onto St. George Mountain (centre). Planning on going up the left ridge route (centre-left).
The three
Approaching the sub-summit. In background is Summit Lake where I started at the far end. How did I take that picture?
Decided not to continue along the summit ridge to the true summit as it still had some snow on it, had some sketchy cliffs on the edges, and a storm was rolling in. If someone else had been there it looked very doable, but beyond my comfort level being by myself in the middle of nowhere.
View from the top looking NW at the Alaska Highway and McDonald Creek.
Cruised back down, catching the last 3.5km or so onto the Flower Springs trail, which was sadly somewhat lacking in flowers (it had some lupins and a few other things, but they were surprisingly scarce).
Obligatory flower picture - well above the Flower Springs trail.
After the hike continued to drive north through the rest of the mountains, stopping for dinner (for both me and the mosquitoes) on the Liard Air Strip (has not been used in what looks like decades, not even a windsock here anymore). Then continued up to just across the Yukon Border at 10:00 in the evening (sun still up) and got through border control without any problems. Went just past Watson Lake (maybe 50km), and found an old gravel pit just off the highway for overnight.
Saw around 100 Bison (they are huge), and around 50 stone sheep (not so huge, but big horns) next to or on the road while driving, after spotting 3 stone sheep on the hike.
Sunday Jul 5, 2020 #
Note
I saw a whopping 16 bears while driving today. Insane.
Made it from around Bear Lake to just past Steamboat, so only 800 km. European equivalent of Budapest to Berlin, but all on a two lane road (with the exception of a very few 3 lane sections).
Made it from around Bear Lake to just past Steamboat, so only 800 km. European equivalent of Budapest to Berlin, but all on a two lane road (with the exception of a very few 3 lane sections).
Saturday Jul 4, 2020 #
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Packed in the morning, left just before noon. Made it to just north of PG. Took the Adams Lake road for the first time in forever. Really pretty the road from Adams Lake over to the North Thompson.
Friday Jul 3, 2020 #
3 PM
Orienteering 1:57:05 7.84 km (14:55 / km) +229m 13:01 / km
ahr:121 max:168
Big Junction training with Simon. I led for two legs and talked through everything I was thinking about, but he led the rest and did awesome!
Super awesome terrain, I really hope we end up with a big event up here in a few years.
Picked up a new tent, stove, and pot from MEC (ironically, none of them are MEC branded products) on the same trip down to Kelowna.
Super awesome terrain, I really hope we end up with a big event up here in a few years.
Picked up a new tent, stove, and pot from MEC (ironically, none of them are MEC branded products) on the same trip down to Kelowna.