The trek group has been pounding out the miles for 4 days since departing Dawson Creek.  Tomorrow we will have a short 100 mile drive or so to Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon, a relatively large place, for three nights of R&R.  More about the place when we get there.  

At last night’s campsite, took the bike out for a short ride and saw a small tent up on the hillside, with a bicycle and a guy at the picnic table.  

I stopped to say hello and ask him about his ride.  He had departed up near Anchorage about three weeks ago.  He showed me a video of a pass he went over that was ice and snow covered.  He said he took a spill but was not injured.  

He is headed to Key West, FL! 

I told him about some of my 300 mile + bicycle rides – up the coast of Maine and New Brunswick then across the Bay of Fundy to Nova Scotia, down the CA coast through Big Sur and on Maui and the Big Island.  I asked what he usually ate for breakfast – “A granola bar, some nuts etc.”.   I smiled and grimaced at the same time, if a person can really do that.  

So, I invited him to breakfast in the AM today and he joined us at 8:15.  Karen made us some french toast, sausage links and a big bowl of fresh fruit.  Karen felt sorry for him, so she also offered him some warmed up strip steak that he REALLY appreciated.  

His name was Tim.  He was 32, had a literature degree from Purdue and a Middle East/Greece Anthropology graduate degree from a University in England.  I enjoyed conversing with him.  We wished him safe travels on the rest of his journey, then we departed to Teslin.

Scenery has been a bit monotonous, with short hills interspersed with flat stretches of mostly glacial moraine and trees.  Roads really good, no steep hills, a few spots with gravel that were only several hundred yards long.  Lots of trees.  No forest fire burn scars to be seen.  Just trees.

Stopped and had a short walk to a waterfall – Rancheria Falls – on the way here, but it was not that impressive.  But the plunge pool below the falls looked fishy.  No big mountains to be seen, but……lots of trees, none as large as the trees at my front porch in Depoe.

Rancheria Falls.

The group is camped on Teslin Lake, just 100 yards away.  All the amenities are here at the campground.  Teslin is a good sized place, compared to what we have passed through for the last 4 days.  The population of Teslin is 239.

Went down to the boat launch to get some information about…….fishing.  Lake trout, rainbows grayling are in here.  A big lake.  

Have screaming fast inet tonight – 152 mbps from Dick the widower’s Starlink next site over.  Will make use of that and do lots of uploading pics tonight and in the AM.

There was no cell coverage all day and just a few little outposts with gas and maybe a restaurant along the 150 miles today.  

Mostly it was……………trees.  

Lots of trees.