Forest Fires

This will be a short post today with no photos. Our friends arrived last night from Alaska. It was great to see each other for the first time in 3 years and catch up with our respective lives. We'll spend the day today in Whitehorse area and getting ready to move out tomorrow.
Our friends had planned to drive the Cassiar Highway south but the forest fire reports as of this morning have the highway closed again. Several new fires have broken out here in the Yukon. Three of them are near Teslin, Watson Lake and Upper Laird village. All of these fires are in the proximity of the Alaskan Highway, which is the only way out of here with the Cassiar closed. The Alaskan highway was closed for a short period of time last night due to smoke and fire. We will take a look at the reports from both the Yukon and BC governments tonight and make our decision to go or stay. If we go, it will probably be a long run as we would want to get past all of the areas that are on evacuation alert along the highway, which would mean trying to get as far as Toad River, south of Watson Lake.
The fire situations in BC and now the Yukon have burned tens of thousands of hectares of forest in both areas. Hot and dry but not much relief in sight. It is cooler today with a forecast of 60% showers over the next two days.
Once we get past Toad River all should be well and we will proceed to Yellowknife.
All is well here and we are looking forward to being on the road again after a 6 day rest stop here in Whitehorse.

Quote for the day:

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
  - Mae West

Cheers

P & N