Today we took a side trip from Carmacks,YK. First thing this morning, we did the Tage Cho Hudan Interetive Center, The centre is home to some very unique items and displays. The theme of the centre is the lifestyle, past and present of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation Northern Tutchone people. It was all done very well. Gary, you would have enjoyed it yourself, way better than the at Juneau AK. Some great pictures of the exhibits. (Which you will all have to wait for until we post them on Picasa).
Then we were off up the Campbell Highway (Yukon #4) to Faro and Ross River, about a 500km round trip. The road was about 60% asphalt and 40% gravel, even the gravel sections were good. We went past Frenchman and Little Salmon Lakes, which are in the Pelly Mountains, and then on to Dorry Creek Campsite, where we had lunch.
We crossed the Pelly River, into the town of Faro, YK. We toured around town and visited the Interpretive Centre, to get a run-down on the towns future. After an assessment of remaining mineral reserves, the governments agreed that the Mine Complex would not reopen and that permanent long-term closure plan would be done.
On the way to Ross River, we saw the Lapie River,
In Ross River there is still some small time mining going on. Not much of a place, more of a location with a scattering house and a couple businesses. We went down the Pelly River ferry crossing and tooks some pictures of the Suspension bridge.
It is cable and wood bridge, and is the longest suspension bridge in the Yukon. This "bridge" carried the pipeline across the Pelly River, when it was built during the Second World War.(Google "Canol Pipeline")
Left Ross River, back to Carmacks for dinner, what a great day.
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