Holiday Inn Birmingham City Whitehorse

... Top-of-the-world-Highway leider gesperrt ist, können wir nicht nach Anchorage und fahren deshalb whs nach Haines, das liegt auch in Alaska, aber im Süden, und von da aus zwei Tage mit der Fähre nach Prince Rupert.

Das ist der Plan. Mal sehen wies geht. Jetzt erstmal noch die eine Schneekette reparieren lassen, die uns gestern gebrochen ist :)

Fazit: Es ist wunderbar! Der absolute Wahnsinn!
P.S: Fäustlinge sind was gutes!

Asterix:
I'm preparing for Canada Summer Games in PEI which I will be heading out to on the 22nd, and arriving about a week before we head out. Doing my best to not drink my face off, and keep a level head before a long trip filled with booze and drugs. My hopes and aspirations for this trip would be: going to lots of shows, drinking my ****ing face off every day and having tons of good stories to tell when I get back. We plan to be gone ...

... Conservation nature walks.

Shopped at the North End Gallery, which has really nice things. It's the first time I saw a picture of flowers made out of "moose tuft."

Ate dinner at the Yukon BBQ; the halibut and fries were fantastic.

Walked part of the Millennium trail, which goes along the entire Yukon ...

... once a week, a 12yr old curling team getting them ready for a March Jr bonspiel. With the warm weather of Feb. we have been skiing and snowshoeing right out the front door. Our little loop gets lots of use from everyone in the neighbourhood. We've entered the Managers Air North Challenge at the XC ski club. We have to ski all the 75kms of the ski club's trails in Feb., to be eligible for prizes. It took us 6h skiing on the Mt McIntyre loop with a 2h/1500 ...

... over. As part of the deal we went to a barn dance complete with caller at Mt Lorne Rec hall. Live fiddle music, allemande lefts, and all. It really was a laugh. There were about 12 of us so we did create a bit of a stir as the locals wondered who the heck was invading. In true Yukon fashion however, we all were having a great time do si doing and bowing to our partners. We, of course, danced superbly and were the hit of the dance, or maybe it was ...

... are on old logging and wagon hauling roads which have had over 100 years to degrade and grow back in. Some parts were easy to walk like any sidewalk and other were riddled with rocks to stumble over and of course, mud. It wasn't really all that soggy but we were glad to have good waterproof backpacking boots. The trail of course, went up. We passed through Finnegan's Point where Pat Finnegan and his two sons laid down a corduroy road over the mud and charged a toll for ...

... and waterfalls. The road passes through White Pass, which is the route the prospectors in 1898 took to cross the mountains on the way to the gold mines in Dawson. A two hour drive can take four or more if you stop for all of the photo ops. Since today dawned clear, we climbed in the car and made our way to Skagway. On the drive down not only did we have nice scenery, but a black bear entertained ...