On Wednesday, we drove south on the Klondike Highway, heading for Skagway, Alaska. We entered the Coastal Range mountains. As we climbed up the mountains, we entered the water shed area of the Yukon River. There are a numerous long, skinny, deep lakes that were formed by ancient glaciers:
As we climbed, we reached the clouds and the scenery became very striking:
The valley floor that we were driving next to, was an amazing landscape. There was a rocky floor that had been scraped clean by the glacial action and very little sand and soil has built up yet. It was a very foreign looking place.
The evidence of the glacier's effect was clear from the scratches on the bed rock of the valley floor:
We crossed the border into Alaska for the first time in our journey:
On the US side of the Border, we climbed up the White Pass into the clouds again and were above the level of the remaining snow:
