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Short drive along Lake Kluane to the beautifully located Cottonwood RV Park & Campground.

Due to the campground distances and the exhausting rainy days, we now had a very short daily stage with only 26km. On the way, we met some raindrops, but we could then set up tent and tarp on dry land and enjoyed the beautiful campsite directly on Lake Kluane.

After washing the dishes from lunch, we spontaneously visited the local power plant. Here in Canada, as in most places we visited in Alaska, the electricity is produced by diesel engine and generator. Villages have larger plants, individual houses smaller own. The campground had a shed with 3 plants with different outputs. Switching is done manually depending on demand. The waste heat from the engines is no longer used here because the pumps and heat exchanger required too much maintenance.
On a former campground the owner had told us that a lodge with supplementary solar cells and batteries worked as a buffer. There were then problems in winter at -40°C, because it became too cold in the generator/battery shed, when the engine ran only every two days to charge the batteries. Since additional heating was then required, the diesel saving of 50% was again reduced somewhat.

Destruction Bay – Cottonwood RV Park

Distance 26.4 km Elevation ↑ 145.0 m ↓ 168.0 m