When you can…. drive from Dawson Creek, through an almost contained forest fire, to Ft. Nelson. All around us for six miles of the Alaskan Highway small fires kept copping up. Huge sprinklers lined the land around the highway keep the fires from spreading. Three miles down the highway were Spectra Energy, the world’s largest natural gas processing plant is across the highway from Petrosul, a recovery plant processing sulfur, a by-product of natural gas, into a pellet form and both companies were out of the fire zone but in the smoke zone!

After the fires we drove over the Muskwa River Bridge, the lowest point on the Alaskan Highway, elevation 1,000 feet. The water level in the Muskwa River was so low there were campers on dry spots in the middle of the river.