WHITEHORSE, BC AND SKAGWAY, AK

August 13-16, 2016

Sure glad our train didn't go over this trestle!

 The White Pass & Yukon Railroad follows one of the Gold Rush trails over the Mountain to Dawson City.  

You can ride the train to mile 8, spend the night in this caboose
and catch the train back the next day.

A replica of Liarsville Gold Camp.  This was the base camp before climbing the White Pass.  Since the gold rush was the news of the day, many newspapermen came to write first hand about the gold fields.  When they got this far and realized how difficult it was to reach the gold fields, they set up camp here and waited for the miners to come back down.  After collecting the stories from the miners, the newsmen wrote them as their own.  

The beginning of the 33 mile Chilcoot Pass.  This was the other, more difficult route over the mountains to the gold fields. Each miner was required to carry a years worth of provisions over the mountains before the Mounties would let them proceed to the Yukon.  That amounted to 2000 pounds of food and gear, to be carried on their backs over the pass.  It took about 30 trips on this narrow trail, some going up, some coming back down for another load.  

When the adventurers finally reached their destinations, they found that allof the good claims had already been taken.  Most 

never found a bit of gold.