When we left Watson Lake last Wednesday and headed towards White Horse, we had encountered a lot of rain and were actually running a day ahead of our original schedule because of that. We would have actually stayed an extra day at Watson Lake or one of the earlier stops if we had not run into the rain, as we new the views in this part of the drive are quite spectacular. As we drove, we passed at least three streams running down out of the mountains and under the road, which were torrents as we passed. Geoff remarked that the streams were running so hard that if they got worse, they would go right over the road.
In the past few days, we have heard that a section of the road between Watson Lake and White Horse is now closed because of flooding. If we had not gotten into White Horse a day early, we would likely still not be here. As it is, we know also of road problems between White Horse and Skagway, AK, our next stop, but they sound less sever. There is at least one lane open in places and they have been working on Saturday and 
Sunday to get the road fully usable again. We will see but we think we have been very lucky to be able to keep with our schedule to arrive in Alaska today for the first time.
We will be returning to White Horse in September on our way back to the lower 48 and, if luck continues with us then, will be able to see some of the spectacular sights we missed between White Horse and the Cassiar Highway, where we will turn off the Alaskan Highway, in search of those views.
