I couldn’t remember where the Northern Rockies were in the trip, but today we went through them. It was amazing. We started the day off a little late. We gassed up, handled oil/tires, and got a nice cup of coffee – then hit the road at 7am. We were in thick fog for the first couple of hours – Sacramento Tule fog has nothing on this stuff. Visibility maxed out at 100’, with the norm being more like 25’. The road was pretty empty, though while taking a wilderness bio-brake Denise had an encounter with one of the few rigs on the road.

We saw amazing stuff today… Pics are up, or will be shortly, but here is the list:
Caribou (a small herd of what appeared to be some yearlings, and then a bit later a mom and calf).
Mountain goat w/ kid
LOTS of Bison ; we saw a small herd of about 5 or 6 first, then we saw several singles, then a herd of about 50 head, and then a few more singles, all this over 10 miles or so. The large herd was hilarious. The big bulls would come right up to the truck. Denise was about 1’ short of being able to pet them from the window. They are HUGE – the one that came up closest to the truck stood even with the top of the cab at his hump.
About 1:30 pm we got back into rain. At about 2 we made it into Watson Lake and the Signpost Forest. It was raining pretty good, so we just drove by and clicked a couple of pics.

For your reading pleasure, here is an excerpt from Anthony’s journal of yesterday:

Day 3:
Today I saw lots of elk**, buffalo**, and I saw a couple of deer and one coyote. Today I had my favorite food – McDonalds. Ya! I had a waffle for breakfast. Almost all day it rained today. Today we got our windshield cracked by a rock. When I was sleeping my mom and dad saw a moose. Mom and dad wonder why I am so tired because all I do is sit there. I saw something exciting – a bear! When we were driving dad saw him and pulled over and tried to take a picture, but it was too dark. We are still in Canada and today was our longest day.”

** The elk and buffalo he mentioned were on ranches, we didn’t see the wild buffalo until day 4.

We’re in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada, tonight. Took a walk and found a sushi place.

Tomorrow, we get home.

Picture link:

http://www.the1buba.com/photo/alaska-with-the-family-day-4/