Westmark Inn Skagway
Third & Spring Street Skagway, Alaska, 99840-0515, United States
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Juneau to Skagway
Our flight to Skagway isn't until 11AM and it's a clear, sunny day, so we decide to try to hike to Mendenhall Glacier and back from our hotel near the airport. As it's a nice, flat, paved bike path, we make the 8-mile roundtrip with no sweat.
On our hike, we see the first of many ravens. This one's name is Quoth.
We board the …
Our First Leg - from Perth to Skagway
Hello Wednesday 12th
August
We are traveling in a bus from Seattle
to Vancouver. It has wifi internet like most other places over here.
The drive is bringing back happy memories from when we covered this
area on our last trip. We are seeing plenty of beautiful motorhomes
but none like ours yet.We had a good flight over. …
July 5th skagway rising at dawn (which ...
July 5th, Skagway Rising at dawn, (which means 5:30 up here) I was pretty bleary. There had been a lot shorter period of darkness than I was used to, I'd had to get up at 3:00 am to cart my bags up from the lobby (explained in the previous entry), I was adjusting to a four-hour time difference from Ottawa and the hotel's windows opened barely at …
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Once in a Lifetime Day
... and as I drove back, I saw the bears run across the road up the hill. After a few minutes, the one mischievous cub ran full speed back down the hill, bursting out of the forest onto the road. He stopped and glanced at the cars, then took off for the river bank. I could somewhat see momma, sitting at the top of the hill, camouflaged in the forest. She once got up and scratched her back against a tree, then sat still and just watched. Two cubs ran up from the river into the ...
Gold Rush!
... The views were striking as we looked across the aptly named Tormented Valley. This is very rough country, to say the least. Gold prospectors had to manhandle their way across huge boulders, lakes and raging glacial streams. It's impossible to imagine their struggles as they tried to tame this wild country. Once the gold ran out, so did the people. This area has returned to a nearly uninhabited wilderness.
Our next photo op was spectacular. ...



