July 6th, Day 11 Dawson City to Whitehorse

We left Dawson City this morning. We had spent the 30 minutes walking the town yesterday. Not much in Dawson. It is set up to look the way it did years ago and there are loads of building that were built during the gold rush days. Walking around the town kind of reminded me of Brodie (I believe that is correct) a gold mining ghost town down off 395 down near California/Nevada border. Everywhere there were pictures of old town Dawson. I didn't think much about the destruction the dredges did when they were at work but heading south out of Dawson you ride through miles of piled up river rock that dredges left behind.
We hadn't gone 20 miles when we came across a fox standing in the middle of the road. He didn't wait for us to get our cameras out before he was gone. Another 50 miles down the road we came across a porcupine on the side of the road. He didn't take to kindly to me barking at him as I went by and he headed for the trees before Big Dave could turn around.
The road down to Stewart Crossing was in real nice shape and it followed the Stewart River for several miles. We stopped at the crossing for fuel grabed a snack and were on our way. After heading out of Steward we were cursing the road and there at the top of a rise was the silhouette of a very long legged moose walking out on the road. She was still about 3/4 of a mile away and I was on my intercom trying to get a call to Big Dave. The big moose no sooner reached the center of the road and out came a calf. We slowed down to get out cameras out but by the time we got the rise the moose were no where to be found. I guess when you can cross an 24 road in on 4 steps it doesn't take long for you to be well into the woods.
After Stewart Crossing we ran into several areas of the road where it was under construction and one nasty section of deep gravel that ran for about 2 miles. We stopped at Carmack and grabbed lunch by the Yukon River. The weather held and we pulled into Whitehorse around 5:00pm Tuesday the 6th.