Monday, August 20, 2012 Teslin YT to Iskut, BC

Today, Monday, we drove 346 miles from Teslin, Yukon to Iskut, BC. We had lunch at the same pull-off that we stopped at five years ago. Two years ago they had a forest fire here and it burned thousands of acres. Today, as we were driving, we saw huge clouds of smoke from another fire that had been burning since the 8th of August.

On our way down the Cassiar one of the first places you pass is Jade City.  This is a highway community made up of jade businesses.  There are several major jade mines in the area. The mines produce about one million pounds of jade each year and half is exported.  We only looked because it is very expensive.

We are staying at Mt. Meadows, a very nice RV park near Iskut.  Iskut is a very small town of 283 souls. A small town with expensive fuel, expensive groceries, and a short tourist season.

The mountains in the background are the Skeena and Cassiar Mountains. A very nice view from our dining room window. Our dining room is 6'x4' across from our kitchen.

We have good wifi and we are going to sit here for a couple of days and just relax.  It turns out the wifi is OK, but it's hard to upload pictures, so this post is a little late.