Glamping Days

Danoja Zho Cultural Centre -  Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nations culture & history The Commissioner's Residence   Jack London's cabin in the Yukon Dawson City Museum around Dawson City   Except for the highway, all the streets are dirt & the sidewalks are boardwalks.                                  view of Dawson from Midnight Dome  crossing the Yukon There are only 2 roads from Canada/The Yukon into the main part of Alaska; one is the ALCAN/Alaska Highway, & the other is the Top-of-the-World Highway. The connection to the Top-of-the-World Highway is this little ferry across the Yukon River, which I took this afternoon. A full load for it was 5 vehicles: a dump truck, a truck camper, 2 vans, & 1 pickup truck, along with a few pedestrians & cyclists. I was lucky to be on a partial load - just my rig & 2 pickup trucks. The landing spot on each side is just the gr...

Dredge No 4 NHS After the initial Klondike Gold Rush in 1898, few individual miners were finding very much panning in the creeks. At that point, big commercial operations moved in with huge dredges to dig up & sort the rock.                                   These pictures show the unspoiled local landscape, some of the rock piles left from the dredges (there are miles of these), & modern mining in the area.  This is the whole dredge & a pic of just the back end.    This is the machine shop that was needed to support the dredge.    This big tube is just 1 piece of the dredge; note the man standing inside the tube.  Tombstone Territorial Park & Dempster Highway The Dempster Highway is a famous route north to the Arctic Ocean. The designation of "highway" is deceptive as it is all dirt. I just drove up about 60 miles through the Tombstone Mountains, the most s...