Downtown Hotel Dawson City

... had lunch and stories about the hardships endured. We went for a walk to the lake where the gold stampeders had to build boats and go along the Yukon River, through the rapids to Dawson City where the gold had been found. From there we continued on to Whitehorse by coach. Whitehorse is the capital of the Yukon with a population of 25000. It had very wide streets and a few fast food shops, Walmart, etc. It was very quiet but still the busiest place we had seen for a few days. The ...

... last day of their music festival and we didn't want to miss that. Downtown has brightly painted, well-kept buildings. There are many old hotels, and most seem to be in good condition. The streets are unpaved and the sidewalks are wooden. One expects a gunfight to break out at any minute. In fact, when we entered through the fence that encircled the music festival, the young man guarding the ...

... Hotel to join the Sourtoe Cocktail Club. Many years ago, a miner froze off his big toe. It was preserved and kept at the bar here. You join the club by drinking a cocktail with the toe (biting and swallowing are not allowed) touching your lips or nose. You can see in the pictures that we both are now members of this infamous organization. Check out the website www.sourtoecocktailclub.com .

... I bet 16; John bet 27 and David's guess was 29. The winner was Jim E with 21. We were on that stretch of road for 5 hours!! We saw some beautiful vistas along the way of fireweed and gorges as well as other pretty things.<br> <br><br> We stopped once more at Polychrome Mt. to have a stretch and rest stop and ...

... off and goes to Eagle (on the Yukon River) and the road to the Canadian border becomes the Boundary Spur Road. There's an airstrip next to the road at Boundary (a roadhouse closed in 2007), which prompted another picture of a sign you don't see in Colorado. The road, still rough, climbs above timberline and travels for miles. It's known as the Top of the World Highway and it is. We're pretty proud of Trail Ridge Road in ...

... on a GPS location. The cache I created was for a friend of mine called Gary. The cache is a PVC pipe with a twist off lid, and is attached to a tree near the top of the DOME. It's exact location is: N 64° 04.086 W 139° 23.802 The words below are those found on a sheet within the cache. """This GeoCache is in honour of Gary Ptolemy Gary was very well known in the Ottawa area as a member of the Gold Wing Road Riders Association, an organization dedicated to the ...

We check out the town and went to the dome and Diamond Tooth Gerties Casino Repaired our equipment and got ready for the next leg of or trip which is load up on a ferry for a ride across the Yukon River and over Top of the world Highway which is gravel. Ray and Christa

... and ready to puncture the tyres as soon as you rolled on it. The continuous speed bump bits were fairly prevalent but not nicely marked with flags, just there to sneak up on us after a little smooth bit. Off course I guess I should mention the weather, when we left Toke, it was raining, then into fog/clouds coupled with rain. Chicken it had cleared and was reasonably fine and clear. Thankfully because this was the gravel stretch with various distances we ...

... the world! We took off to the Dempster Hwy the next AM and drove up to Tombstone Campground. It's only 70 km up the hwy but it might as well be another world. We camped there for 4 nights and hiked right from the campsite. Because of the daylight you can wait all day for the rain to clear and then hike in the evening. We were able to get above tree line in about ½h walk, up of course, but once we got up on the ridges you could see forever and ...