Homeward Bound Day 4 - Muncho Lake to Fort St. John

Depart Muncho Lake 9:15am

Arrive Fort St John 5:45pm

Miles Traveled 395.8

Weather: AM temps in 30s. PM temps in 50s. Morning foggy and smokey. Afternoon sunny with some clouds.

We try to get early starts but bright and shiny things keep crossing our path and distracting us.   We decide to walk down to the lake before we leave.  The smoke is still around but the view is still pretty.  We meet a man who is in the area for work.  He is using lidar/ladar?? to map the AlCan.  He is driving the AlCan and all the offshoot roads in a pick up truck with the lidar/ladar equipment hanging off the back. He says his clients use the data to decide on building and construction projects. 

Northern Rockies Lodge

Boats and lake by Northern Rockies Lodge

The road towards Fort St John is winding and narrow for the first 100 miles.  This morning visibility is poor due to fog and smoke. I believe the smoke is from the Donnie Creek wildfire burning north of Fort St. John, British Columbia.

I am glad to have this truck's tail lights to follow through the combination of fog and smoke.

Noon comes; we've been on the road 2.5 hours and we have only traveled 100 miles.  

It is a red letter day when it comes to wildlife sightings.  We see caribou, deer, black bear and a black and orange fox.

We see two groups of Caribou.

There were three black bears.  Here are two of them.

Early afternoon we drive out of the smoke. We can see the scenery again.

Dinner is take out salads from The Chopped Leaf.  We have take out dinners so we can eat with Grey.  I am happy that he picked my bed to sleep on this evening.  He slept on my bed last night, too.  Sorry BB!

Sal