Lucky UPS Truck Driver Best driving route Canada Burwash Landing Kluane Lake Yukon
This UPS driver has one of the most beautiful routes with lots of drive time, few people and large distances to cover. This UPS driver has it good. I wish my sister that works for UPS could get this route. I'd visit every summer! The picture is not as nice as the view was, as I couldn't get it all in. Anyone traveling up that way knows how beautiful it is up there. If you haven't traveled out that way yet, make sure you plan a trip once in your life, or luck out and work for UPS and get paid to drive it!!!
Burwash Landing and Destruction Bay
CWG Pan Northern Torch Relay Kluane Lake, February 3, 2007
The Yukon Torch visits Destruction Bay and Burwash Landing, Yukon on February 3, 2007 as part of the Canada Winter Games Pan Northern Torch Relay. The relay travelled between the two communities on the frozen Kluane Lake.The torch was carved by Shane Wilson from caribou antler.
Alaska 2018 Kluane National Park
Leaving Whitehorse, we continued on the Alaska Highway, traveling past Haines Junction to Kluane National Park. We spent 4 days at an RV park on Kluane Lake. The weather was either windy and cold or sunny with a beautiful reflective lake. Moving on, we visited the museum in Burwash Landing and then stopped at Discover Yukon RV park.
Kluane Lake Yukon Sept.2011
Created on February 1, 2013
I LOVE this place!
Kluane Lake is located in the southwest area of the Yukon. At approximately 400 km2 (150 sq mi), and 70 km (43 mi) long, it is the largest lake contained entirely within the territorial border.
Kluane Lake is fed by the A'ay Chu, which is composed of meltwater from the Kaskawulsh Glacier, located within Kluane National Park. It drains into the Kluane River, whose waters flow into the Donjek River, White River, Yukon River, and eventually the Bering Sea.
The Alaska Highway follows most of Kluane Lake's southern border, and the drive offers many spectacular views of the lake. The Yukon communities of Burwash Landing and Destruction Bay are located on the southern shore of the lake. The lake is also known for its whitefish and lake trout fishing. ~ Wikipedia
20150628: Day 21, The Alcan-Burwash Landing to Beaver Creek, Yukon
The 28th of June, 2015, was our 21st day of travel. The focus of this video is NOT the abundant and attractive surrounding landscape seen in the Yukon as we travelled down the road, but rather is about a segment of the old Alcan Highway (today known as Highway 1 or The Alaska Highway) itself. My first video about a road!
The segment of Highway 1 from Burwash Landing, Yukon, Canada to Beaver Creek, Yukon, Canada remains one of the roughest highways I've travelled thanks to wintertime road upheavals and distortions due to permafrost and other ravages of winter and the seeming inability to keep up with road repairs during the short summer months. The sheer number of ruts, loose rocks, dips, and potholes along this segment of road makes traversing it a navigational challenge.
Watch as this segment of the Alcan slowly morphs from a decent road near Burwash Landing into one that may challenge the mechanical integrity of your vehicle and your kidneys. We've taken over 3 hours of Dash Cam videos and reduced them to 57 minutes of torturous driving experience for your viewing pleasure! This video should put to rest stories as to how bad or good this road really is...and how challenging!
By the time we reached and drove beyond the Canadian Border Checkpoint at Beaver Creek towards Tok, AK we began to see the road morph once again into some semblance of normalcy! A real relief!
This video was captured using a Cobra Dash Cam with GPS. You can see in the video's lower right-hand corner of the screen the local date/time of day as well as the GPS coordinates of our location at the time the video was captured. Watch as the road really deteriorates at around 08:33!
In March of 1942 U. S. Army Engineers began construction on the Alcan Highway (today known as the Alaska Highway, or Highway 1) in response to a need to provide road transportation to Alaska's interior (Fairbanks) in support of the Lend Lease war effort with Russia, as well as to provide for the protection of the Lower 48. It stretched from Dawson Creek (Milepost 0), British Columbia, Canada to Delta Junction, Alaska (Milepost 1422), via Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, a distance of about 1,700 miles. Two teams of engineers built this road, approaching each other from opposite directions. The entire route was completed on October 28th, 1942 with the northern linkup occurring at Beaver Creek (Milepost 1202), Yukon, Canada.
This section of road between Burwash Landing and Beaver Creek is 106.38 miles (171.2 km) long, normally taking approximately 2 hours and 31 minutes to travel...depending! The road begins to deteriorate shortly after traveling north of Burwash Landing, eventually becoming nothing more than a crushed gravel, dirt, dust, ruts and pothole plagued road. Not until reaching Beaver Creek, Yukon, Canada does this road regain some semblance of quality that would promise less damage to a vehicle and/or its tires. Beaver Creek, Canada's westernmost community, is also the location of the nearby Beaver Creek Border Crossing for traffic leaving Alaska and entering Canada. The checkpoint for traffic entering Alaska from Canada is another 18 miles up the road heading towards Alaska.
An ultimate destination for folks traveling this section of road is to reach Tok, Alaska, USA...the gateway town to Alaska's northern interior, and the city of Fairbanks, AK. The Alcan Highway ends at Delta Junction, Alaska where it meets the Richardson Highway (Alaska Route 4) and continues the additional 96 miles (Alaska Route 2) to Fairbanks, AK.
It took us from 07:24am to 10:57am, a little over 3.3 hours, on the 28th of June 2015 to traverse this section of road. We were towing our 25' RV trailer on our way to Tok, AK, having left Cottonwood RV Park on Kluane Lake just south of Burwash Landing a short time earlier. Our early departure from the RV park that morning resulted in our arrival at the Kluane Museum of Natural History in time to find it that it had not yet opened for the day.
It got to the point around 08:38 AM that the road was so bad it seemed more of a primitive path than a road. (GPS N61 42.48.3 W139 49.53.4). More than likely it was along here that our trailer bathroom's medicine cabinet became detached from the wall and the roll of toilet paper completely unrolled onto the floor! We encountered clusters of potholes impossible to navigate around. Traveling at speeds greater than 25mph may be damaging to trailer and/or vehicle contents if not the vehicles themselves. There are NO service stations along this route if one should need help or assistance!
We were passed by several vehicles along the way since we travelled at slower speeds than the maximum allowed. We would eventually catch up to these same vehicles which were now travelling as slow as we were. I wonder which bump in the road convinced them to do so? :-)
Drive along Kluane Lake with watching eagles at the end
Der Kluane Lake ist ca. 70 km lang und mit 405 km² der größte See im gesamten Yukon.
Das Schmelzwasser des Kaskawulsh-Gletschers fließt über den A'ay Chu River in den See. Der Abfluss des Sees ist der Kluane River, der über den Donjek River, den White River und den Yukon River das Beringmeer erreicht.
Noch vor 300 bis 400 Jahren floß der damalige Slims River im Tal des heutigen A'ay Chu River in die entgegengesetzte Richtung und entleerte den Kluane Lake auf 225 km Länge in den Pazifik. Nachdem der Kaskawulsh-Gletscher sich immer weiter ausdehnte und schließlich das Tal blockierte, stieg der Wasserspiegel im See über 10 Meter an, bis er einen neuen Abfluss (Kluane River) im Nordwesten fand und den See nun über Donjek River und White River mit dem Yukon River verbindet.
Das Wasser des Kluane Lake fließt seitdem eine zehnmal längere Strecke um zum Meer zu gelangen.
Ich fahre auf dem Alaska Highway - Richtung Alaska - und entdecke am Ende des Videos noch zwei Adler am Straßenrand.
North, to Destruction Bay
Enjoy the Yukon scenery along the Alaska Highway, north from Whitehorse to the appropriately named Destruction Bay and check out a panorama at our sweet free boondocking spot at Burwash Landing. Complete with teaser about the destruction that happened the next day! Don't miss a single adventure from our long Strage Trip to the Last frontier at
In Canada and no quad to play with thanks UPS !!! Ugh !!!
In Canada and no quad to fly thanks UPS UGH !!!!
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Wild Heart in 360º - Destruction Bay, Yukon, Canada
Hop in and go for a ride with me into Destruction Bay, Yukon Territory, Canada!
Sunset on Kluane Lake, Destruction Bay
DJI F450 Flamewheel FPV flight Destruction Bay, Kluane Lake, Yukon Territory
Canada Day Trip to the Donjek Glacier, YT
A weekend trip with packrafts into the Donjek Glacier in Kluane National Park, Yukon.
Haines junction on the ALCAN, Kluane Lake, Destruction Bay, Tok, Fairbanks, Haines and Skagway.
This production is not monetized by me! I only mean to share the experience's and music with family and friends and myself, that is when I'm too old to actually do this stuff anymore. At the time of my drive along this road Go Pro Cameras were not available. I shot a lot of still pictures with an old Fuji digital camera. The tractor trailer driver that shot the video portion of this production, has his original 32 minute video at: by US Icon. If he or anyone else objects to my usage of their material, I can take this down or you can ad your own adds. This is not for me to make any profit!
Burwash Landing
Burwash Landing between Whitehorse, YT and Tok, AK
Day 20 - Kluane River, Destruction Bay, Kluane Lake, and St. Elias Mountains
Everyday for 7 Weeks - Day 20 of 50.
Instead of making three videos, I combined them into one. Enjoy!
Blog:
Alaska Highway Part 2
Driving on the Alaska Highway. Vid taking near Kluane National Park in the Yukon. Passing by Kluane Lake. Vid taken in July 2011
Driving the Alaska Highway around Kluane Lake - March 09, 2017
Driving north on the Alaska highway around Kluane Lake in Yukon Territory in an Audi Q7 TDI. Unedited video from a handheld iPod 6.
Kathleen Lake Campground, Kluane National Park, Yukon, Canada
Very nice Parks Canada campground at Kluane National Park, Yukon, Canada. Great fire circle. Can be windy. Late light out in June. Sunset at 1143 pm on the summer solstice. It doesn't get dark here in June.
Bear near Kluane Lake
on our drive from Haines Junction to Beaver Creek
Kathleen Lake Kluane
This video is about Kathleen Lake Kluane