Carcross Desert

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Carcross Desert

We drove up the Alaska Highway this Summer and toured around the Yukon.
An interesting area was this desert. It is not technically a desert, but are actually sand dunes, that were left behind from.....

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from the last glacial period. The area receives little precipitation, due to the surrounding mountains, but too much to be considered a desert.
The area is used by the locals and tourists for atving, sandboarding and skydiving.

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It is an interesting area seeing a coniferous forest surrounded by sand and being so far North.

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Thank you for joining me on my visit.

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