We walked the path a bit, and then mostly toured the town streets. Everything is an easy walk from the TIC, where we left the van.
Cathie found a quilt shop almost right beside the TIC, and made it worth their while being there.
For lunch we went to a recommended restaurant, the Ribs & Salmon, and had neither of those. They were promoting a special burger as part of a town competition. Maybe it was for all of the Yukon, but Whitehorse has about 75% of the Yukon population (30,000 out of 40,000) living here, and is really the only major town in the Yukon.
The burger was a monster that we should have split but didn’t. The patty was wild boar, bison, elk, jalepeno peppers, with wild boar bacon, 2 slices of cheese, tomato and dill pickle on top. The side fries were topped by one delicious onion ring. We wouldn’t be eating much for the rest of the day. Good thing we had a walk back to the van to settle down the “lunch”.
Some people at the cg recommended a tour of nearby Miles Canyon, so we went there. It’s right in town really, almost out to our cg. It was a nice easy ramble to gorgeous views of a Yukon river canyon with a suspension bridge across it.
In town we had noticed a number of vehicles with damaged windshields. In a row of cars angle-parked along one street roughly half the cars had badly-cracked windshields. Yikes!
Americans from many states are here too, Florida, New Jersey, Utah, California, Oregon, Washington, I guess taking advantage of the power of their dollar.
It was a sunny mild evening, still 25C at 8:30 pm, and light until quite a bit later.
Whitehorse is where we took out our gas tank on our Alaska trip.
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