The Agnew Family aboard the "Dog House"

We left our campground and immediately ended up in a construction zone. The road around the bottom of Kluane is described in the Milepost book as a narrow and winding road. Well, I guess they are trying to make it wider and less winding but it’s going to be a lot of work. About 7 kms are currently under construction and there’s at least that much more to go. Once we got out of the construction area the highway was in pretty good shape. We did a quick tour around Haines Junction and then headed south to Haines and the US boarder. The drive down was very pretty. The road meandered through a large valley with mountains on either side. Margaret and I felt that the drive to Skagway was more spectacular while Colin and Ed felt the drive to Valdez was. We came to the conclusion that due to the fact that the road to Skagway was on the edge of the mountain the guys missed a lot of the spectacular scenery (something about having to watch the road). About 40 miles outside of Haines we crossed the border into the US — the road to Haines starts in the Yukon, goes through BC and finally ends up in the Alaska. The border guard was thorough but very pleasant. It turned out that he is from Buffalo and has just recently been posted to Haines. Colin noted that the temperature was climbing as we were getting closer to Haines. It was 27C and sunny when we arrived in Haines — summer at last. We landed at a small campground on the water — very nice.


Kluane Lake in the morning.


Traffic going through construction area.


A rock glacier --- what's left after the glacier is gone.


An Indian Fish Camp.


Takhanne falls


The summit at Chilkat Pass on the Hanes Highway.



Another view of the Chilkat Pass.


A mushroom along the side of the Haines Highway.


A boat in the harbour at Haines.