From Anchorage to Ushuaia by Bike

530 km separate Dawson City to Whitehorse through Yukon Territory. Huge forests, lakes, rivers, nice landscape, but not a lot of changes and monotone by bike.

Since Stewart crossing, we were not amazed by the landscapes, but we had a lot of encounters!

We spent our first night in Pelly Crossing, in a campsite renovated and managed by the Natives. Unfortunately , it was not very clean: the garbages were full and dogs of the town went into them, not shower and no drinking water. Sébastien, while having breakfast, had the chance to see a red fox coming to the garbage.

The following day (Monday), we had strong head wind that took all our energy. Tired, we wanted to have some lunch, when a car stoped to tell us that there was a bear only few km in front of us. We hesitated (what shall we do?) and finally decided to keep biking. The driver was wrong about the distance and after 6 km, we stopped to have lunch without seeing any bear. After lunch, another car stopped to tell us that the bear was just 100 m from us, on the left. We continued slowly. Suddenly, Sébastien saw it (but not me, I was so scared that I never went uphill so fast!). He did not have time to take a picture of it: the bear was hidden behind small trees, smelling. It was no way to turn back for a picture!

After this long day (82 km with head wind), we stopped at Tatchun Creek Government Campground, with only outhouses! Just when we finished our diner, John and Leanne offered us cinnamon roll for breakfast and invited us to stay at their place in Seattle region. We shared with them grilled marshmallows on their fire and could put our bags with food in their car for the night. After a shower in the river, we went to bed.
Yesterday (Tuesday) was a small day: about 30 km with Richard, from Netherlands, who travelled alone by bike. After lunch in Carmacks, our arrival town, Richard finally decided not to bike the other 60 km he wanted to and stayed with us for the evening. We wanted to stop at the RV park downtown, but they categorically did not want a tent in their RV park. So we had to go backwards for 2 km to the closets camping next to the Yukon River … finally it was better than the other one!

During the evening we exchanged abour our experiences, recipes to vary our alimentation (that is mainly with rice and pastas), peopls we met, etc. We had a nice time all together and went to bed close to midnight!

Today was a rest day … we did not feel in good spirits, the weather was bad … Hopefully tomorrow will be better!