Highway 37

I've finally made it to the Yukon in route to Alaska. Driving up Highway 37 from Hyder to the Alaska Highway may have been one of the coolest drives ever. Sharp turns on dirt roads without borders, great climbs, and beautiful scenery. It was straight out of a car commercial. There were multiple times I broke into an ear to ear smile when I saw the next streatch of road. 6km from the junction with the Alaska Highway the pup car of a gas tanker fell into a ditch on the road and from then on the trip turned a bit. Three hours and countless mosquito bites later they let us squeeze through (one at a time with instructions to close our windows and not to smoke).

The campsite I ended up finding when I got to the other side had more mosquitos than I've ever seen in my life. By the time I got my tent up I was pretty much covered in bites. When I awoke mosquitoes had gotten under my tent covering and were covering the mostquito net layer of my tent. Lucky there weren't any holes in that but I stoped counting at thirty mostqutoes sitting there. I don't usually sleep in when camping but the thought of getting up and battling the mosquitoes put me right back to sleep.