The 98-mile South Klondike Highway connects with Skagway Alaska and we are headed that way
In 1899, The White Pass and Yukon Route built a railroad siding
at Robinson named for the Captain of course
The highway was built in 1978
with spectacular scenery
Highway open year-round
Beautiful Emerald Lake with rainbow-like colors
from blue-green light waves reflecting off the white sediment on bottom
Caribou Crossing Trading Post
Look how clean we are
Expecting 700 people today from cruise ship buses
World's largest polar bear
Life-size woolly mammoth
tremendous variety of wildlife on display
musk ox
Look at the rack on the moose
Carcross Elevation 2,175 feet
St. Saviour Anglican Church built in 1902
The Centre...painted with the "welcoming" crest
Railroad station....Whitehorse to Skagway
Carcross....on the shore of Lake Bennett
wettest month August
Temperatures....in the 50's
Old Venus Mill built in 1908
Magnificant views of Windy Arm...an extension of Tagish Lake
customs some where up there
Tutshi Lake
Tutshi Lake and the mountains.....oh me
The highway winds through the rocky valley
of Summit Lake
Canada Border Service at Fraser (Elev. 2,400 feet)
The sub-alpine landscape of stunted trees and lakes
is often referred to as a "moon-scape"
represents a transition zone between the treed lower elevations
and the true alpine above treeline
Some fog or clouds or both
Well sure.....some construction
curve ahead
run-away truck ramp...won't tell you what the Captain said
The small twisted alpine firs are known as "mopheads"
White Pass Summit (elev. 3,292 feet)
Thousand of gold seekers poured into Canada over the Chilkoot and White passes on their way to Dawson City.
The mounted police set a minimum requirement of a year's supply of food and equipment...."one ton of goods"....for any miner entering Canada (after witnessing the desperate condition of many)
180 feet below
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