Thursday June 9th through Saturday, June 11, 2016 Start: Tok, Alaska End: Chicken, Alaska
If we were away from everything
in Tok we are beyond everything in Chicken!
A gold prospecting camp and later town founded in 1887, Chicken is the
farthest away from anywhere that we’ve been so far.
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| Chicken sign post |
Chicken is 78 miles from Tok on a
mostly paved road over a couple mountains and into a valley. It was 76 degrees and bright sunshine as I
wrote this. There are remnants of heavy
mining here, large historic dredges as well as active mining. We explored the three campgrounds/cafes/store
fronts and picked up some souvenirs before Mike went off to play in the
dirt.
It just so happened that there was a bluegrass music festival in Chicken this weekend called "Chickenstock", the 10th year of the event, so I took in the
music while Mike was off in the hills prospecting. For a town of less than 100 people, there were over 700 people here, camping in tents, trailers, cars, trucks, vans, and RVs and enjoying the music, even when it poured down rain most all of Saturday.
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| Cars lined up at Chickenstock |
We’re having a ball doing exactly what we want.
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