{"id":480,"date":"2009-07-15T12:16:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T17:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/?p=480"},"modified":"2012-06-24T18:15:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T23:15:32","slug":"more-miles-and-wildlife-at-kluane-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/more-miles-and-wildlife-at-kluane-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"More Miles and Wildlife at Kluane Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

170km – 180km – 180km – 140km – 170km … those were the last 5 riding days since Fairbanks! (Fairbanks – Delta Jct – Tok – Beaver Creek – Burwash Landing – Haines Junction). Most rides were very hot and dry. At one clear creek I stopped and dipped into the cold mountain water, with shoes and bike jersey and all – the evaporation cooling helped over the next several miles.<\/p>\n

A highlight of the journey so far was yesterday’s ride along Kluane Lake. I remembered this stretch from 10 years ago when driving up the Alcan in a rental car. Again, the refreshing and clear water invited to take a dip:<\/p>\n

\"Cooling<\/p>\n

I also saw my first bear between Burwash landing and Destruction Bay near the lake. An adult Grizzly walked out on the road maybe 100m in front of me and stopped; so I stopped as well. When I stood up the bear ran back to the nearby bushes, then stopped and smelled to check things out. I walked my bike slowly and – just to be sure – pulled out my bear spray (not that I needed it, of course). The magnificent animal lingered a bit and then disappeared into the woods. A bit later I saw a Coyote about to cross the road (maybe 30m away), then turning around quickly when it noticed me. Nice to see more wildlife now.<\/p>\n

Around 6pm I stopped by the airstrip where we had camped and waited to fly to Mount Logan basecamp two months ago in May. It was nice to see the folks again – but they denied my special cargo request due to insufficient tread on my back tire!<\/p>\n

\"Cargo<\/p>\n

After another 3 hour ride a 15km, 400m downhill rush finished off yesterday’s ride into Haines Junction. Unfortunately I was still 10min too late for the restaurants close at 9:00pm, so I went to sleep hungry (way too many mosquitoes to cook) as most always on this trip! One more reason to have both a huge cinnamon bun and an apple fritter and lots of coffee and sugar for breakfast this morning…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

170km – 180km – 180km – 140km – 170km … those were the last 5 riding days since Fairbanks! (Fairbanks – Delta Jct – Tok – Beaver Creek – Burwash Landing – Haines Junction). Most rides were very hot and dry. At one clear creek I stopped and dipped into the cold mountain water, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}