It was a quiet weekend for wildland fires around the Yukon.

According to Yukon Wildland Fire Management officials, the only real activity was near Mayo. There, the Haldane Lakes fire continued to complicate access to the Eagle Gold Mine and presented some delays for travellers on the North Klondike Highway.

Wildland Fire’s Haley Ritchie told The Yukon Star this morning the showers expected around the Mayo area “never arrived.”

Pilot vehicles were helping drivers through on the highway, she said, and there were problems accessing the service road into the Eagle mine, about 90 kilometres northeast of Mayo.

However, essential supplies managed to get through to the mine site.

The situation is stable enough for the Yukon to have sent 29 firefighters and 11 support personnel into British Columbia to help out with that province’s rampaging forest fire problem following a heat wave.

The rest of the week in the Yukon seems to have a better outlook, Ritchie said.

The forecast calls for a “downturn” in the weather, she said. Cooler, wetter conditions are predicted for much of the territory.