Saturday, July 31, 2010

road from Watson Lake to Faro

This is a large part of what the road was like, only much worse. Barb couldn't take any more pictures because she was hanging on . It was under construction for about 30 km, again good practice for the Dempster. It was somewhere along here that we developed a slow leak = completely flat by morning (and we had had it pumped up the night before).
This is called the Campbell highway, often only 1 car width and gravel was an improvement! This 200km piece of road took us all day and was relatively boring except for the terrifying near miss with the speeding truck that jack-knifed on the crest of a hill!
Once we got to Faro, we found it to be a beautiful little town (very little, I was able to run my 1/2 hour run around the whole town. The information centre had wifi (hence the quick note previously). We were able to hike up to this waterfall out the back of the campsite, again looking for the Dall sheep (with the curly horns) but no luck.
The town of Faro also had this outdoor fitness centre that was pretty good. On one machine I could lift my own weight by my arms, in another it was a typical eliptical but all were designed to tolerate living outdoors. And apparently no vandalism.
The golf course wound its way throughout the town, wherever there was green space. Didn't get to play it unfortunately.
The next morning we drove 18 km in/out on a tiny road to a sheep blind - still no sheep.
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