Three Guardsmen Mountain, iconic sentinel of the Haines Hwy. Just before heading up and over the Chilkat Pass, Yukon Territory, Canada in the twilight of a winter afternoon.

I love this wild untamed view, no matter what the season. See how the wilderness road snakes up alongside of Three Guardsmen and disappears beyond.

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Traveling north on the Haines Highway, approaching Haines Junction, deep in the winter shadow of the St Elias Mountains, Yukon Territory, Canada.

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Cresting the Chilkat Pass in the southern Yukon Territory, traveling the Haines Highway southward.

Incredibly, the crest of the Pass is almost bald of snow, where in the past the roadway would have been a deeply cut chasm with snow walls 20 feet or more. Not so for the last 10 years or so, as annually the snow on this windblown summit becomes less and less.

Taken through the closed window of the Kenworth, there is some reflection because of that.

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It does feel like you're on top of the world, when you go over the Chilkat Pass in Yukon Territory, in Canada. High above tree line, what some might call barren I call wild and wonderful.

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Iconic sentinel of the Haines Highway in the Stikine region of British Columbia, Canada. (or is this Yukon Territory? I am never quite sure, markings and boundaries are non-existent in this glorious wilderness)

In the distance, the Haines Highway approaches, then snakes along the foot of and around this majestic peak on Chilkat Pass.

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