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? :-)
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List of natural history museums | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:00:34 1 Africa
00:00:42 1.1 Algeria
00:00:56 1.2 Angola
00:01:12 1.3 Botswana
00:01:24 1.4 Canary Islands
00:01:44 1.5 Egypt
00:02:00 1.6 Ethiopia
00:02:14 1.7 Kenya
00:02:28 1.8 Mozambique
00:02:41 1.9 Namibia
00:02:56 1.10 South Africa
00:03:58 1.11 Sudan
00:04:10 1.12 Tanzania
00:04:24 1.13 Tunisia
00:04:36 1.14 Uganda
00:05:04 1.15 Zimbabwe
00:05:17 2 Asia
00:05:26 2.1 China
00:06:38 2.2 India
00:07:26 2.3 Indonesia
00:07:39 2.4 Iran
00:08:23 2.5 Iraq
00:08:35 2.6 Israel
00:09:03 2.7 Japan
00:11:35 2.8 Jordan
00:11:46 2.9 Kyrgyzstan
00:11:59 2.10 Malaysia
00:12:14 2.11 Mongolia
00:12:32 2.12 Oman
00:12:44 2.13 Pakistan
00:12:56 2.14 Philippines
00:13:16 2.15 Qatar
00:13:28 2.16 Singapore
00:13:42 2.17 South Korea
00:14:04 2.18 Taiwan
00:14:34 2.19 Thailand
00:17:35 2.20 United Arab Emirates
00:17:48 2.21 Uzbekistan
00:18:00 2.22 Vietnam
00:18:16 3 Central America
00:18:25 3.1 Belize
00:18:38 3.2 Costa Rica
00:19:16 3.3 Dominican Republic
00:19:37 3.4 Grenada
00:19:48 3.5 Guatemala
00:20:19 3.6 Honduras
00:20:31 3.7 Nicaragua
00:21:26 3.8 Panama
00:22:24 4 Europe
00:22:33 4.1 Albania
00:22:45 4.2 Armenia
00:23:00 4.3 Austria
00:24:49 4.4 Azerbaijan
00:25:12 4.5 Belarus
00:25:29 4.6 Belgium
00:25:46 4.7 Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:26:00 4.8 Bulgaria
00:26:50 4.9 Croatia
00:27:50 4.10 Czech Republic
00:28:09 4.11 Denmark
00:28:35 4.12 Estonia
00:28:52 4.13 Finland
00:29:23 4.14 France
00:31:21 4.15 Georgia
00:31:44 4.16 Germany
00:35:08 4.17 Greece
00:35:45 4.18 Greenland
00:35:57 4.19 Hungary
00:37:14 4.20 Iceland
00:37:27 4.21 Ireland
00:37:52 4.22 Italy
00:40:51 4.23 Latvia
00:41:03 4.24 Liechtenstein
00:41:15 4.25 Lithuania
00:41:32 4.26 Luxembourg
00:41:45 4.27 Macedonia
00:41:58 4.28 Malta
00:42:11 4.29 Moldova
00:42:24 4.30 Monaco
00:42:36 4.31 Montenegro
00:42:50 4.32 The Netherlands
00:43:58 4.33 Norway
00:44:27 4.34 Poland
00:45:00 4.35 Portugal
00:46:21 4.36 Romania
00:49:15 4.37 Russia
00:50:21 4.38 Serbia
00:50:43 4.39 Slovenia
00:50:58 4.40 Slovakia
00:51:14 4.41 Spain
00:52:53 4.42 Sweden
00:53:55 4.43 Switzerland
00:54:57 4.44 Turkey
00:55:17 4.45 Ukraine
00:56:09 4.46 United Kingdom
00:56:18 4.46.1 England
00:57:49 4.46.2 Scotland
00:58:23 4.46.3 Wales
00:58:37 4.46.4 Northern Ireland
00:58:48 5 North America
00:58:57 5.1 Bermuda
00:59:10 5.2 Canada
00:59:18 5.2.1 Alberta
00:59:41 5.2.2 British Columbia
01:00:11 5.2.3 Manitoba
01:00:51 5.2.4 New Brunswick
01:01:02 5.2.5 Newfoundland
01:01:17 5.2.6 Nova Scotia
01:01:34 5.2.7 Ontario
01:02:04 5.2.8 Quebec
01:02:43 5.2.9 Saskatchewan
01:03:13 5.2.10 Yukon
01:03:30 5.3 Mexico
01:04:34 5.4 United States
01:04:43 6 Oceania
01:04:52 6.1 Australia
01:07:01 6.2 Indonesia
01:08:29 6.3 New Zealand
01:09:02 7 South America
01:09:11 7.1 Argentina
01:13:12 7.2 Bolivia
01:13:41 7.3 Brazil
01:15:04 7.4 Chile
01:15:29 7.5 Colombia
01:16:06 7.6 Ecuador
01:16:20 7.7 Guyana
01:16:32 7.8 Paraguay
01:16:45 7.9 Peru
01:17:04 7.10 Trinidad and Tobago
01:17:21 7.11 Uruguay
01:17:40 7.12 Venezuela
01:18:49 8 See also
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This is a list of natural history museums, also known as museums of natural history, i.e. museums whose exhibits focus on the subject of natural history, including such topics as animals, plants, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, and climatology.
Some museums feature natural-history collections in addition to other collections, such as ones related to history, art and science. In addition, nature centers often include natural-history exhibits.