Day 7 – Eagle Plains to Whitehorse
Feb 26th, 2008 by admin
Another day with no TSD. Up early to make the run back to Whitehorse. It’s cold and very clear. They had expected snow overnight but nothing happened.There’s a bunch of us in convoy but the going is a little slower today. Everyone is close to the range limit so nobody is pushing too hard – nobody wants to have to use their reserve fuel in the cold and wind.
We stop along the wayt to look at the carcass of a car that crashed in the 2004 Alcan Winter Rally. THe car went off the road on a turn and then rolled after it left the road. It was so badly balled up that the car was never recovered. It still had its Alberta license plate on it. A sobering sight.
Its a bit windy and the temperatue is around zero. We drop down into a valley and the temperature plunges to -12 deg F. Fortunately, as soon as we leave the valley, the temps go back to zero.
finally we make it to the gas station at the end of the Dempster. We fuel and it’s off to Whitehorse for the night.
C8-)