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Skagway Slideshow
Skagway
Travel Blogs from Skagway, United States
Skagway
... raincoat on with my hood up yet my shirt was quite wet. Oh well, no harm no foul. There were 4 ships in Skagway today - ours (Star Princess), Island Princess, one from Holland America and the Norweigan. I went up to the 17th floor to ...
Thank goodness I am not a gold miner!
... winter, or even trying to climb down it today!!!! We arrived in Skagway at about 5 pm Alaska time (Pacific) and walked to the very tired hotel and checked into our room. After getting our bags ...
Alaskan Huskies and Floating the Eagle Preserve
... -hand knowledge is helpful for better informing our guests who are trying to decide among the many "shore excursions" offered in the Skagway area. Both were great trips and I'd highly recommend either one. I'll let the pictures do the ...
Loose Moose
... ! We got up at 5am to catch the ferry and the sun was out, yeah! We had a beautiful trip on the ferry between Juneau and Skagway. We only saw one whale spout but had a great view of the mountains and glaciers. We got off the ferry in Skagway and joined a ...
Cruising through Alaska
... a drink whilst taking it all in. A once in a lifetime experience...one to tick off the "bucket list"!! Today we are in Skagway; the last port of the cruise. We are a bit disappointed as we had booked a tour going by helicopter to a glacier ...
Skagway
Beautiful day in Skagway. Everyone takes the train to the Canadian border thru gold country. Dolly entertains us with stories of the gold rush years. At the end of the train trip we try our hands at gold digging and Braeden strikes it ...
I want to run, and feel my feet leave the ground!
... , paradoxical middle-ground we all go through. I went for a 5 mile run to the overlook that looks over our whole city of Skagway two days ago. The beauty of it all struck me still. The mountains form a perfect ring around the city, except for a slight ...
Chilkoot Trail
... trail was one of the trails that the Klondikers used during the gold rush on their way to Dawson City. They would arrive in Skagway (Dyea) by steam boat from various ports along the west coast. The only portion they would have to do on foot was the 33 ...
"There's ice in them thar hills!!"
... has a colourful and storied past; you’d be hard pressed to find anyplace much more 'American frontier’ than Skagway. Consider this: the Tlingit Indians who inhabited the area called it "Skagua" or "windy place," for centuries before Skookum ...
Second entry!
Came to the library to use their internet to upload pictures and type up my paper journal into this blog, just to find that my computer's internet no longer works? Which I don't understand. So I'm using the "use these computers for no more than 15 ...
Tim arrives in Skagway in July
After two long months, Tim finally made it to Skagway in July, arriving in time for the July 4th celebration and just before our 25th wedding anniversary on July 16. It will be tough to see him leave again later this month, but I look forward to his ...
Day 13 - Whitehorse -> Skagway Alaska
... taste. Pat and Brian find some brake pads at the Suzuki dealer and with a little grinding VOILA they work! We decide to head to Skagway rather than hang in Whitehorse. It's a short and scenic ride. We quickly set up camp at the municipal CG and head out ...
Glacier Point Wilderness Safari
In Skagway, we took a cruise around the bay where we saw bald eagles, otters and a whale! We unloaded at an island where we met our tour guides. We took a bus to the rain forest and then were fitted with canoeing gear. We walked through ...
Jun 30, 2009
Hello from Skagway, Alaska
... are getting washed today. Today ( Tuesday) Mike and I will stay close by as Ryan, Niki and the boys are heading down to Skagway from Whitehorse for the day. The “kids” have gone on a rapelling/ climbing excursion and the others are on various ...
Skagway and Cassiar Hwy fire
... pass itself is so windswept and barren I can't even imagine what it must have been like in the winter. The descent into Skagway took nearly 2 hours, with the brakes complaining the entire way. I didn't even know how bad it was since my ears ...
Rail Time!
Skagway is a cute port town. It's a gold rush town that had 20,000 inhabitants during the gold rush days. At first they would trek up through the mountains until a railroad was built to take people over the mountains to search for gold. We ...
Many Adventures
... ..., dopey from hibernation it seems, it looked very indignant and sauntered off..Great excitement. We had time to walk in Skagway on a lovely afternoon, the cyclist none the worse for wear...Sailing down the beautiful Lynn Canal in the evening, another ...
May 10, 2012
1. It is not May 10 2. Stop locating me in Manhattan! 3. I want a profile picture please. 4. This is the biggest app on my phone as far as how much space it takes up and also performs the least amount of tasks. So, useless and annoying. But I will ...
Liarsville Gold Camp Show and Salmon Bake
The photos in this album illustrate working in the recreated goldrush camp at "Liarsville" on the edge of town in Skagway. The camp is a recreated goldrush camp similar to what would have been seen during the Yukon gold rush of 1898. The ...
Travel Writing Goal
Hi you all! Plans have finally solidified a little bit. I've taken some soul searching days the past few weeks, and I am not shooting for the following in terms of career opportunities in the future, and I would love any feedback and constructive ...
Kayaking
We went and had breakfast with Ferry again this morning. I asked him for just one egg, and he brought me a huge portion anyway (to go with my hash browns and the rest of my breakfast) and when I joked him about it he told me it was an ostrich egg. ...
Touring the town
Woke up a few times and by 7am I'd given up. Headed out to walk Broadway (the main historic street). The town is a national park site and rangers are busy as are local artisans with restoring and interpreting the history of the gold rush era. Had a ho ...
Upper Dewey: 3100 foot climb....
... crazy days, and then I will try to keep up with this....ha-ha...we'll see how that goes. I live in Beautiful Skagway Alaska; the first inaugurated Klondike Gateway City in the North. We're on the end of the Lynn Canal; the 2nd largest Glacier ...
Fun in Skagway
... the engines are diesel but at least one is a steam engine. As they pass right through our campground as they arrive in Skagway, I've been able to inspect them. One interesting train car has turbine blades on the front and is designed to snowplow through ...
Skagway and Yukon Territory
... everyone’s passport/visa. Although the farthest place (Carcross) on this tour was just about 110 km (70 mi) from Skagway, we crossed an international border and a provincial border (Canada) on our way. We entered Canada into British Columbia and ...