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Kluane
June 15, 2023 to June 22, 2023I arrived in whitehorse and hung around for a bit, picking up packages, going to the lovely farmers market, and getting groceries. I had one package that was going to be arriving the following week, so instead of hanging around Whitehorse for another week, I decided to go to Kluane which was definitely on the list of places I needed to stop this summer.
The drive continued to be absolutely beautiful which is a real theme for this summer. I arrived and found an absolutely beautiful place by a river with a view of the mountains in the park.
I did the King's throne hike, this hike has 2 legs. The first is to the throne, and then the hike continues to the summit. I really wanted to do the full hike and to try and get a glimpse of Mt Logan. I made it about half way up the second leg and did something to my foot where it hurt to put weight on it. I decided to do the responsible thing, as disappointing as it was, and turn around and not risk my foot getting worse and getting stuck on the mountain. Luckily the hike opens up to an amazing view of Kathleen lake pretty quickly, so it was still a wonderful day.
The second photo here is a not so good picture of the throne, while I was here a couple of people who had hiked up skied down the snow that you see in this photo :)
And finally, after the hike I went for a swim in Kathleen lake. Fun fact, Kathleen lake has kokanee which are salmon that don't return to the ocean anymore. For Kathleen lake salmon this is because at one point a glacier blocked them getting back to the ocean and they had to adapt.
Unfortunately the next day my foot was a bit worse so I couldn't do any more hikes while I was here, so it was back to Whitehorse and start the drive north! But first I picked up some packages including a care package from Claire, receiving mail in random places around the country is pretty fun :P
