We had a good sleep at Dease Lake and at breakfast met kiel and his friend kiel, not sure if this is how to spell your names so please comment if its not correct, anyway one of the kiel's is Zora's son and the other kiel has been working at the cafe were we slept, he cooked us some breakfast, i had cheekily asked for a large breakfast to be halved onto 2 plates and he smiled and told me that would be no problem, I'm not sure if a cafe in UK would be this accommodating.
The kiel that cooked breakfast was very interested in the expedition and asked how he could travel with me so i gave him my email and he may get in touch after chris and my friend ben Brown from the Uk has been with me, that will take us up to New Year.
I am hoping that StreetKids International can link me up with a Christmas project somewhere around Calgary as that is what i would like to do over Christmas help other's in need.
We left Dease and headed north on the Casia highway loads more snow and a fantasic road dangerouse but like driving on a forest logging road in Scotland.
We arrived in a small town called Goodhope Lake and on about half an hour stopped to give a Native Indian called Irvine Chief a lift he was heading north towards Watson Lake and had been traveling around Canada logging trees, he told us that his dad had a house up in the forest and he hadn't seen him for over a year and it wasn't far of the forest road, we arrived at a heavy snow coverd side road and drove down a track to a Hut with some wooden out buildings, out side was lots of chopped wood and blood in the snow everywhere an axe and a saw had been used to cut up Moose and many skinned rabbits and bigger game, His dad was very happy to see his son after so long and Irvin pointed to the new tin roof comparing things that had changed around his family home, his mum had died a few years back and his dad now lives alone with his dogs.
His dad came out of the hut with a big metal put and filled it with snow with a shovel, he asked me to get one side of it to carry back to put on a huge hand welded stove where you can melt the snow to provide cooking or washing water, the home has no water or electric and everything he needs is around to live, this is totally amazing, It is so cold outside that the meat can be kept in an outside larder, this place my look daunting to a traveller not used to seeing real living existence in operation but this is pure survival with nature, any animal killed is for food and justified.
We left after a mug of coffee and Chris and i left Irvin with his dad and within a few ours we turned off the Casia highway and onto the Alakan highway which i thought would be buisier but not the case more snow again and driving is dangerouse also the temperature has gone down to minus 10 and we are feeling the change, the scenery is incredible and makes you feel small against the power of nature and you realise that you could soon be in danger is things go wrong, local people use satalite phones out here as the mobile companies provide little coverage.
We arrived into White Horse tired and stopped at the library to see what youth services thier was in town, we were late arriving into White Horse as we were going to meet the local news at 2pm and Toyota, but as logistics go this didn't work to plan so with Chris having to sleep in the front seat in such cold even though i can run the engine he wanted to see if a local serivices couldn't find uses a place to stay, i had emailed a couple of people off www.coachsufing.com and hospitality club but had not had any replies yet.
We called at the local Salvation army who had helped us in the south, they called the local youth people called Youth Emergency Shelter and within 20 minuted we met with Johnny Brass good name and Tanya Silverfox also a good name up here,
they understood my mission after i showed them how we had started a youth project in smithers and helped us find a place to stay in town. Johnny and Tanya are lovely people who work late into the night helping young people up to 20 years old find shelter, they operate from a drop in center that can help with other associated problems and has four beds 2 for girls and two for boys, it is a much needed project in White Horse and we are honored that they could help us too as fellow volunteers.
I tried to contact Andrew Finton a contact given to me from johnny Brass, he runs a wood carving program for youth and i wanted to chat to him tommorw maybe he might email us in the morning.
My mobile phone doesn't work up here either but if anyone wants to contact me they can call my skype phone and leave a message on Tel: +441312081920 UK number.
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