From Anchorage to Ushuaia by Bike

Here we are in Whitehorse … well … almost …

After our day of rest in Carmacks, we took the direction of Whitehorse, the Yukon capital.

Thursday morning we began to bike and had a good surprise: we had tail wind! It did not happen to us for such a long time! At lunch time we already had done 50 km and we decided to go to Whitehorse in 2 days (177km).
We met Michel, from Switzerland who came to Canada and studies to become a teacher … After a long conversation, a magpie stole some of our lunch! On the road we also met Matt who bikes from Vancouver to Inuvik and then, once back to Vancouver, hopes to bike south. We talked a lot with him: he travelled through Asia and Europe by bike.

We put our tent at Fox Lake government campground and we had a shower in the lake after our 114km! Our neighbors were very nice and offered us drinking water (there was none on the campground) and took our bags with food in their car or the night.

Yesterday, the wind had turned and we had it coming from the front. We had biked 49 km when we met Didier! He is from France who came to Yukon Territory for dogsled, his hobby. After a long conversation with him, he invited us to his place … 35 km behind us (North), and just 10 km away from the campsite of this morning! We hesitated … he said that he had a canoe, a car for going into town and a bed in his cabin … Sébastien was annoyed to go backwards … I was very tempted … and we went there! Turned around, tail wind, and back to the beginning for a new Yukon adventure!

This morning we went to the lake for canoeing with Marine (Didier’s handler) and we stopped on the way to have a shower. We are now in Whitehorse for groceries. We will stay tomorrow and leave on Monday morning.