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  THE ALCAN HIGHWAY

  The Alcan Highway (originally the Alaska Canada Military Highway, now officially the Alaska Highway) travels through the Yukon Territory to Fairbanks.  Taking the Tok Cutoff and Glenn Highway you can get to Anchorage.  I like driving it in the winter better than the summer.  No bugs, the potholes are filled and frozen, and you don't eat dust behind a row of 'bagos.  In January 2002 we passed exactly one vehicle between Haines Junction, Yukon Territory and Sutton, Alaska-- a Canadian snow plow.   I also like the winter light, low on the horizon, that casts strange and definite shadows on the craggy peaks of the Wrangell and the Chugach ranges.    

These are scenes from along the Alaska Highway from Haines Junction (where the Quonset Catholic Church is located) to its end at Delta (Milepost Sign).  January 2004.

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We drove in sub zero temperatures through the Taiga, which means "Little Sticks," an apt description of the trees.

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