{"id":66,"date":"2002-10-01T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-02T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2002\/10\/01\/20-miles-up-the-dempster-highway-yukon-territory\/"},"modified":"2010-01-24T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T02:18:10","slug":"20-miles-up-the-dempster-highway-yukon-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2002\/10\/01\/20-miles-up-the-dempster-highway-yukon-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"20 miles up the Dempster Highway, Yukon Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <u>awesome<\/u> display of the Northern Lights last night &#8212; white and green with some red and purple that danced and flickered across the sky for at least a half hour.  Snow and poor visibility when I woke up, but it was still pretty and I had an enjoyable drive to Dawson City.  Stopped at the Jack Wade gold dredge and since no one else was around I conveniently failed to see the &#8220;Keep Out!&#8221; notices and discovered some loose mesh on the side of the dredge, allowing me to take a tour of the inside of the seventy year old structure.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch in Dawson City means that it&#8217;s now been a full week since I&#8217;ve had to consume canned soup, but during the next several days along the Dempster I&#8217;ll be getting more than my fill of Chunky beef and potato, Progresso chicken Italiano, and other fun flavors.  It is very likely that I may never want to even look at a can of soup again after this trip is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An awesome display of the Northern Lights last night &#8212; white and green with some red and purple that danced and flickered across the sky for at least a half hour. Snow and poor visibility when I woke up, but it was still pretty and I had an enjoyable drive to Dawson City. Stopped at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2002\/10\/01\/20-miles-up-the-dempster-highway-yukon-territory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;20 miles up the Dempster Highway, Yukon Territory&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-alaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}