Having explored Whitehorse - or as much as the deadline would permit - we're off to Skagway. Alaska.
It's a short drive, and we break it up with light amusements. The Yukon Suspension Bridge, a trivial (and missable) tourist attraction on the highway.
I'm excited by the rocks - lots of hard rock, mica schist, the promise of more interesting minerals to come.
Now the drive - Whitehorse to Skagway - is short - perhaps 2 hours - but it's beautiful. The first hour flies - stop at the suspension bridge, wander, into car, but here the terrain changes.
We drive between increasingly high coastal mountains, beneath us a low valley, glacially carved from the granite, adorned with thousands of dwarf pines and tiny lakes. It's a surreal scene. And I take pictures, but none would do it justice.
A valley, between two giant mountains, filled with pine trees - (?) perhaps a foot high, "lakes" as small as a foot wide, thousands of them, you feel - as you look upon it - as a giant....
The road climbs into the mist and drizzle - the view vanishes, hopes for a grand photo vanish. over the White Pass - visibility - perhaps 50 feet, rain, drizzle, up, up, up, then finally down.
Out of the rain and mist and into Skagway.