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Alaska Highway casts its golden spell
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KLUANE LAKE, Yukon We were driving north on the Alaska Highway, about
1,800 miles from Seattle. No vehicles had passed in either direction
for more than a half-hour.
Daybreak in the Yukon. Clouds parted. Suddenly, shafts of
sunshine poured down on a chain of mountain peaks - snow-tipped
steeples, 8,000 feet high and climbing, that seemed to be hanging in
the sky.
A burst of sun flashed from a blue-white glacier fastened like a
gaudy diamond in the wall of mountains. It was a north-country
overture, big, bold and beautiful.
"I never knew there were mountains like that anywhere," a ...
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