Wednesday September 22nd (We are in Canada)

Slide Mountain to Beaver Creek

Distance 330 Miles

It was a tad chilly last night; the temperature when we got up this morning was 21 F. This morning before we left Slide Mountain Camp Ground we visit with Dave the host, and he showed us some of the fossils that were collect from Slide Mountain. Note in the photo of Dave that the logs in the house are going vertical as oppose to the more common horizon log construction. The reason for this he explained is that the trees in tha area grew short and stubby, so that is why they were are used vertically, also 2 or 3 men could place them in position without the use of a crane.

We had another pleasant day’s travel, driving from Slide Mountain thru Glennallen, Tok to the US Border (Port Alcan) into Canada. When we walk in the door at the visitor’s center at Beaver Creek, Sid the host greeted us with an introduction and a hand shake. Sid has been living in Beaver Creek for nearly 50 years, and is extremely friendly and a wealth of information. While we were taking with Sid, we saw this white dog sprinting down the middle of the highway. He said oh that's Snowball, he does that sprint several times a day. We thought man that dog is lucky to be alive.

We stopped at Beaver Creek for the evening at the Westmark Inn Campground. This evening we hooked Casie up to electricity and immediately plugged in the electric heater; it is much quieter than Casie propane furnace. The camp ground had shut of there water and closed down the sewer for the season to the sites, before it gets really cold. They still have the community wash room and toilet facilities open, and I believe those will be closing up towards the end of the week.

I thought we may be able to have driven from Anchorage to Tok on tank full of gas 330 miles; well I was wrong by about 10 miles, before we completely ran out, and we pulled over and poured in 5 gals from our fuel container that we carry for our generator. We were very please with the trucks fuel consumption as we got almost 14 mpg.