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Keno
August 03, 2023 to August 07, 2023Next up, I'm headed to Keno City for a music festival, along the way I stopped at Five Finger Rapids lookout which my last route had skipped over.
Keno City Music Festival is a little free music festival in Keno City, which is a remote old mining town, I think theres around 20 year round residents. Its a fairly unique festival when the sun doesn't go down!
After the festival I drove up an old service road to do a short hike at the top of the one of the mountains around Keno. Before heading out on the hike I decided to mount the fan remote to the wall, it had been floating around the van for long enough!
While I was hiking, about an hour into roaming, I got an evacuation alert. Keno was under a warning, but Mayo which you have to drive through to get to Keno was under and evacuation order. I didn't want to get stuck, so I turned around and trail rain back to the parking lot, from here the sky was already filled with smoke.
After driving faster then I probably should have down the very bumpy service road, I was back on the main gravel road and headed towards Mayo. I'll admit, it felt a bit weird driving directly towards the forest fire.
After I made it past mayo, I stopped at a rest stop for a bit of a break, the sky looked bonkers. From what I could find out, the forest fire got within a few kilometers of Mayo, but luckily did not make it to the town before it was put out.
Onwards to Whitehorse, and the sky was pretty fun because of a storm that was coming in!
Back in Whitehorse, I decided to take care of a few chores and fill some chips in my windshield, and also take apart my fan motor to clean it to see if I could stop the squeaking... it helped for a bit...
