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We drove up the road to the minig town of Keno, which has a population of about 10.
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We found this mine which had some automated equipment doing something that we couldn't figure out. The actual mine shaft was blocked of (to stop people like us entering it presumably :-)
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We entered the building that led to the mine entrance and had a look arround inside.
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The only damage to the car for the entire trip was the windscreen. We alrady had several pits from stones just from being in Alberta (the windscreen was spotless when we moved from Hawaii). However, we managed to pick up this huge one which ofcourse has to position itself directly in the drivers line of sight.
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We got this filled after getting back to Lethbridge, which reduces its impact a bit, but its still pretty irritating. There is no point replacing the windscreen whilst we are still in Alberta though.
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A good example of what causes these - the stones on the road (like this one) are way bigger than they should be and have sharp corners.
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From here it was the long drag south again. This is a good example of some of the burnt areas of forest which unfortunately are far too comon (forest fires are ofcourse a natural occurance but I would suggest the large regions that 'happen' to be next to all the roads are not natural...). The road to Fort McMurry in Alberta is an especially bad example, it has burnt forest for about 50% of its 400km distance.
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Our hotel in Whitehorse.
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