Mayo Road

Miles Canyon feeds the Yukon River into Whitehorse. Back in the gold rush days, it was a very wild set of rapids before the miners reached Whitehorse. Now the river is dammed for hydro and Miles Canyon still flows very swiftly but the wild rapids are gone.

Today there is a solar eclipse. It's apparent as we drive along, the light goes a funny yellow colour but here it's only partial. Tried to get a pic but really difficult.

We stop at Braeburn Lodge, a checkpoint in the Yukon Quest. Here there are the world's biggest cinnamon rolls - an obscene over-sizing!

Braeburn Lodge is our morning tea stop. It's a checkpoint on the Yukon Quest dog sled race. Here they make the most enormous cinnamon rolls (truly obscenely huge). No, we absolutely left them alone, just took a photo. There's a bush airstrip alongside the road. It's deemed an international airport (as are most airports in the Yukon) because there is traffic between here and Russia.Read more