{"id":4344,"date":"2014-10-04T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2014-10-04T06:00:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T10:00:46","slug":"sud-yukon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/sud-yukon\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Sud Yukon"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\n1. Up early to enjoy the first sunrays, quite rare however…
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\n2. Some lakes empty into others in tumultuous torrents.
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\n3. As I head to Carcross, fall colors are vibrant again.
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\n4. I make several \u00ab\u00a0photo stop\u00a0\u00bb…
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\n5. … throughout the many lakes of southern Yukon.
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\n6. They really resemble to fjords.
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\n7. And always these incredibly saturated colors!
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\n8. Carcross, a very welcoming small village.
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\n9. Here is the curiosity of the area that people call \u00ab\u00a0the smallest desert in the world!\u00a0\u00bb This is actually a great dune formed by the prevailing winds ammassing sand of Bennett Lake for thousands of years. Rather incongruous amid this mountainous landscape.
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\n10. I decide to climb the highest surrounding mountain the next day, the Montana Mountain, and VivaLaVida takes me to sleep over 4,500 feet elevation. A nice place to enjoy a northern light over Whitehorse, about 80 miles away.
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\n11. I will go to bed quite late again…
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\n12. Still, I’m up before sunrise, ready to climb the peak that awaits me.
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\n13. After two hours ascending, the conditions turn out almost like in winter. As I have to cross a quite icy snow slope chilled to 40 degrees, I regret that I left my ice ax in VivaLaVida as my only one walking stick don’t give me much assurance … Even hiting my shoes hard in the slope, my sole only grips less than one inch in the snow. I assure each of my steps carefully.
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\n14. but progression continues…
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\n15. … and I soon reach the ridge where I get an incredible panorama.
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\n16. After another hour, I finally reach the summit, in the second plane on this image. I continue the ridge til the funny rocket – probably a radio relay – erected on the secondary summit.
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\n17. The view of the surrounding lakes is just grandiose!
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\n18. Selfie picture despite the bitter cold: 10\u00b0F on the thermometer of my watch.
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\n19. Three hours later, geting back to VivaLaVida, a picture of this beautiful mountain that doesn’t seem very impressive from here.
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\n20. Descent by the Mountain Hero Trail partly washed away by rain. Somewhat to remind me bad memories in Baja..!
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\n21. I see many molting willow ptarmigan during this descent.
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\n22. Having discussed with some locals who recommended it to me, I went discovering and sleeping in the Annie Lake Valley, another remote valley…
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\nI then headed to Whitehorse where I spent a weekend of bad weather writing the last updates and does an o\u00efl change to VivaLaVida. Stay tuned for later news of VivaLaVida’s journey… \ud83d\ude09
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