We drove to a spectacular park in the southwest Yukon today called Kluane (Kloo-WA-nee). It contains Canada’s highest and the world’s largest non-polar alpine ice field in the world. Kluane is also part of a chain of parks in Alaska, Yukon, and B.C. that make up the world’s single largest internationally protected area.
In the park, we camped on Kathleen Lake;
and hiked to the summit of King’s Throne, which had views of the glaciers and peaks in the interior of the park.
The ridge leading up to the final sumitt approach is a crazy steep path that gains 2,500 feet in one mile.
From the top we could see the back side of Kathleen Lake and Mt. Logan, the highest point in Canada at 19, 551 feet!
Mt. Logan is also the northern hemisphere’s pole of cold with temperatures recorded as low as -107.5 degrees F.
Here is Carmen taking a break on the knee busting route down the summit.
and another shot of the way down!
Beautiful!
And they say there’s an over-population problem.