Simpson Lake, Yukon - Frances Lake, Yukon

Day 11 – Tuesday, August 9 2005
Simpson Lake, Yukon – Frances Lake, Yukon
Miles Driven: 60

Leaving Simpson Lake, we drove 60 miles down the road to Frances Lake, another great Yukon Government campground on a beautiful lake. We had a wonderful campsite next to the water and there was only a couple other campers around. Tim tried fishing again, but no luck. We were really wishing we had our boat to do some real fishing. We had an interesting conversation with the park ranger. He was from West Germany and had moved to the Yukon 20 year ago, living off the land near Simpson Lake. He told us about living in the bush with no electricity, running water, or other conveniences we can’t live without. He said it gets to 45 degrees below zero with up to nine feet of snow in the winter. You can only imagine what it must be like. The nights are getting cooler, it was 45 above when we woke up the next morning.