Midnight Dome (6/14/23 Wed)

So my Amazon orders appear to be moving throught their pipeline with the expected timing. Fingers crossed.

At breakfast today I met guys from NH. They've been hear a number of times and had suggestions on what I might want to see and probably more importantly some things to watch out for.

Coldfoot is the mid-way stop between Fairbanks and Deadhorse. It gets really bad when it rains. I should take care of my radiator by cleaning it with a squirt bottle and kitchen brush. Otherwise any wet dust is cement like and turns to concrete in the radiator fins. I went to grocery store today and bought a brush for this purpose.

On a related note another Alaskan told me the chain trick is to wipe off all the dirt each night. The dirt is what is destroying the chains. He only uses gear oil on the chain and wipes it clean frequently to get the best life out of them. I guess that's going to be my new ritual for this trip.

Besides the NH guys I met a father and son who canoed from Whitehorse to Dawson City 6 years ago. The son wanted to go further, all the way so to speak. So they returned from Montana with a plywood boat. I took their picture today by their boat. It's bigger than the canoes because they don't expect many campsites. So they needed something they could tie off and sleep on. They plan to travel all the way to the ocean in Alaska. I wondered about the Canada to US boarder, but learned from someone else they actually do have a river based boarder crossing. As previously stated, nearly everyone you meet in Dawson City is crazy interesting.

I waited until the end of the day for the best weather to visit the Midnight Dome overlook. It lived up to all of the local guys high praises. It may well be the most beautiful place you can drive to.

Every direction is jaw droppingly amazing. You can look down over Dawson City. Or futher down the Yukon river into the wilderness. Or further North West into snowy mountains. Looking slightly up the Yukon river you see the Klodike river and the giant S tailings of the dredging machines. All of it breathtaking and hard to leave once your standing there.