Fort Nelson

In the weekend George and I went up to Fort Nelson for our final tradeshow for the year. Fort Nelson is 4 hours north from home. The tradeshow was smaller than the others we have been to but were able to introduce more people to the camp and give out some brochure/registration forms to possible campers. 

The road that we travel to get there is the Alaska Highway. It runs from Dawson Creek all the way to Alaska and was built by the US Army during WWII. This was so they could easily get support up to Alaska to protect them from attack from Russia. This place is called, Wonowon. It got it's name because it is located 101 miles up the Alaska highway from Dawson. 

A picture of what the road looked like most of the way. There are not so many Pine trees here but most of the way it was brown grass with pine. The Pine trees are short and very thin because of how cold it is. Between home and Fort Nelson we passed through three places, Wonowon, Buckinghorse River and Pink Mountian. These had nothing more than a worker camp and maybe a convienance store.

Along the way we saw some wildlife on the side of the road. This was one of two Elk

My first sighting of a bear. This is a cub that was looking for food on the side of the road. By time I took the picture it was running away.

The final destination for our trip. The last major stop before going to Yukon.

A sign that I found interesting in Fort Nelson

The sunset from the porch when I arrived back home on Sunday night.

I was able to get an information brochure about what is up that way and hoping to be able to go back up one day and do a tramp, go to the hot springs and see more interesting wildlife.