Day 33

It was a long day today. We drove from Whitehorse Yukon to near Iskut BC. The smoke was bad today. Amy drove the whole time with Shari in the front. They had their girl talk while I dealt with the kids. I asked the gas station attendant on the highway about the fires. He said that there were so many burning that they had no idea where the smoke was from. I checked the wheels multiple times and the hub and bearings on the leaking hub seem to be of normal temp and function. We turned off of the main Alaska Highway onto the Cassiar highway for a different route home. The Cassiar is m ore Westerly and has better scenery. It is more of a minor highway than even the Alcan. Much of the drive today was on gravel road. Although we passed many mountain lakes and beautiful scenery, much of it was obscured by smoked. Toward the end the smoke began to clear, we picked a campsite called mountain shadow. It was next to a lake in front of a huge mountain with glaciers. We stopped and set up. There was a babbling brook behind the trailer that delivered relaxing sounds all evening. We took an afternoon hike down to the lake and watched some loons and an n eagle soar overhead. It was so relaxing. We spent much of our evening trying to put Grant to sleep as he refused to go to sleep.