Muncho Lake/Mile 462 Water Aerodrome

Muncho Lake is a snow-melt fed lake, surrounded by tree covered mountains. We snagged a spot last night, and when Grace got stuck on the computer for work, we decided to move to an even better spot on the lake and stay another night.
Zuri, as you can imagine, is pleased as punch to be staying on a lake, off leash, with both of us around 24/7.

We tried to take a swim to save the shower water, but our feet were numb within 30 seconds-like painful numb. We returned, defeated. We are only at 3000ft and it’s that cold!

Some fires north of us have caused the closure of the Alaskan Highway, so we will need to change our immediate travel plan. We will be staying in Whitehorse, Yukon Saturday through Monday to do some mountain biking and celebrate Canada Day, eh!

We taught ourselves the whist card game last night-supposedly the first trump game ever, and it is particularly well suited to two players. It’s very interesting and fun, a fair bit of both luck and skill required.

Yesterday had a great critter count-6 bears(black), several loons, 2 moose, 2 porcupines, a flicker(bird), and 0 mice!

There was a bear in our campground the night before we arrived. It left scratches and tooth marks on the garbage container and lifted part of it off the concrete. Glad we missed it. Darren keeps reminding Grace that we are in an area with the largest concentration of grizzlies in the Western Hemisphere. Yes, we have bear spray. No, we don’t carry it all the time.

The sun sets after 11pm here and it’s up by the time I wake up around 5. With the moonlight, it rarely gets dark at all! We are all sleeping well, in spite of that.Read more