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Outside of Tok,
forest fires in 1990 have done a lot of damage. In cold regions
like these, trees need a long time to regrow.
Memories of
China: No flush toilets in Chicken.
Border crossing
into Canada, somewhere in the mountains.
Snow on the
right
waiting for
the (free!) ferry across the fast-flowing Yukon, across lies Dawson
City. In the winter, there is no ferry - but people can drive over
the frozen river to the other side.
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The whole of
"Downtown" Chicken fits on this photo: A mercantile store,
a saloon and a cafe. Chicken has somewhere between 15 and 40 inhabitants
(depending on time of year) and is normally cut off in winters.
Strangely enough it can be found on most maps of Alaska, which probably
says something about Alaska.
The roads are
mostly gravel with lots of dust, as can be seen.
Hail on the
tracks
Hailstorm during
a short-cut section
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