Alaska Road Trip - Day 4

Another rainy day - this is not what I planned on. I left Prince George to cross the Continental Divide and then drop down to Dawson Creek, the start of the Alaska Highway. The weather was absolutely miserable. Pretty hard rain all the way over the top - and it was cold too. Thank goodness for the electric vest and the heated handgrips, they were on for most of the day today.

The rain stopped just before Dawson Creek and conditions turned a little better. But it has certainly been a time of greens and greys - a thosand different shades of green in the trees and a thousand different shades of grey in the sky.

Dawson Creek marks the start of the Alaska Highway - it is not much of a town, unlike other towns there is no major river (though presumably there is a creek somewhere), so it is even less interesting. Like all the other towns it is shabby, dirty and totaly uninteresting architecturally (except for the grain elevator of course).

The road north from Dawson is for the most part good - lots of RVs, lots of pick-ups (its a big oilfield area) but very few motorbikes (maybe they have more sense). The country is rolling forested hills as far as the eye can see. There are some amazing views where the road goes on and on and on to the horizon. There are not many people here. Though when I stop to take a photo I realize there must be billions of other residents - namely mosquitos. As soon as I stop I am surrounded by swarms of them - big ones too. Its beneficial to be wearing a full face helmet in such conditions.

I make it into Fort Nelson and decide to call it a day - 542 miles. The guy at the hotel says that the weather forecast for the next two days is - rain showers. Oh well.