The Agnew Family aboard the "Dog House"

Leaving the Walker Forks BLM campground we were about 50 miles from the Alaska highway and the most note worthy part of trip was the evidence of a forest fire. We noticed that there had been a forest fire just after Chicken and this evidence continued all the way to the Alaska highway. When we at the information center in Tok (the first town once we were back on the Alaska highway) about this she explained that there was a forest fire last year that burned about 1 million acres. Let me tell you it is a very weird feeling looking across a valley from a hill top look out and seeing the remains of a forest fire as far as you can see. Another strange site was the pockets of trees that hadn’t burned. The result of the fire is an flurry of Morel Mushroom buying. Morel mushrooms grow after a forest fire and there were signs everywhere about picking, buying and selling Morel mushrooms. Our stop tonight was at a state park called Moon Lake State Recreation site. It’s a small campground (15 sites) on a gorgeous little lake. Zaph especially enjoyed this stop as he convinced us he needed to swim and swim and swim (for over an hour). Splash even joined him for a romp in the lake. Unfortunately, it pour rain for a couple of hours in the evening but we were still able to watch the ducks in the lake fishing for supper from the comfort of our warm dry trailer. The sky was overcast except for a small strip in the west just above a mountain. This create a very pretty sun set. It started with a pink glow and ended with a gorgeous orange. Lori you would have loved it.



View of the Taylor Highway ... old and new. This area was in the forest fire.


Sunset on Moon Lake.


Rika's Roadhouse.