From Watson Lake we headed up the Robert Campbell Highway. I
don’t recommend this highway to anyone, but I wanted to see Faro. The road was
as unsafe as the Natives are telling the government. It was unbelievably bad
with frost heaves that could tip your car over and growth along the edge of the
road allowing moose to walk right out in front of you. At one point the
washboard was so bad my spare tire hanger under the truck came unhitched and my
spare tire was dragging. It was rough but we made it.
At our first break we pulled over into a gravel pit. I heard
what I thought was a long moaning moose call, but when I went to investigate it
was a wolf on the road. I went back to get my camera, but by the time I got
back he had gone quite a ways and was just a speck in the camera lens.
Faro was a dilapidated mining town. Once the largest open pit
lead-zinc mine in the world, the Anvil mine closed in 1998, but 50 people still
work there on the cleanup they expect to last for 500 years. It looks funny to
see houses and apartment buildings boarded up and rotting while new houses go
up next door.
The Johnson Lake campsite at the turnoff to Faro is in the
same condition, but we had a great spot on a beautiful little lake.
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