YUKON

After leaving Iskut BC, we continued on the Cassiar Hwy (#37) towards the Yukon border. The road became more and more rough as we travelled, mainly in the areas that had been gravel and now have a single layer of tar/asphalt. The night was spent at Nugget City which for the most part was closed. As it turns out, we are early for the tourist season in spite of what the tourism books say. We ended up staying there,but with out water and electric coming from the store located there. There was no sewer hookup which isn't a problem, as our two holding tanks ( black and grey water) each hold about 40 gallons. We stopped at a Jade store on the way. About 90% of the world's JAde comes from BC but the carving of it is shipped off shore because of the labour costs.We had enterd Yukon at about 3:30 yesterday (Monday) Today the mountains were left behind for a while as we entered the Yukon Plateu, however the Cassiar Range soon reappeared. There was a waterfall to visit on the way to Teslin which after a 1/3 mile walk, turned out not to be too spectacular, but nice to see anyway. On picture #3, we took the top option and headed towards Whitehorse. Tonight we are in Teslin YK. Each little place with a name is pretty well self-contained with an eating place, fuel, motel and camping, although as mentioned before, we are too early for some of the services.