After loosening up those muscles after the hike to Devils Punch Bowl, and doing the clothes washing, we packed up camp and did one more round of the shops in Skagway as one Cruise Ship was in today.
Bugging out of Skagway, we headed up the Whitepass, following the famous railway line, that is still currently being run as a tourist rail trip.
We took time for some photo ops, and found ourselves back in Carcross, a small town we visited last time. We were surprised by the amount of development work. The road was being fully re-laid, a new carving centre was built and a First Nations elder was teaching kids to carve totem poles, and a new structure was being built, it is the Sustine vessel, a gold rush paddle steamer that burnt down, so they have the bow on land and building the ship behind it, encompassing the engines and other parts, as a tourist attraction.
The drive into Whitehorse was uneventful, but enjoyable. Explore Miles Canyon and found a camp beside the Yukon River. A neighbouring camper had a great tent, see the photo, he had his own wood fire place inside, awesome. We took a walk down to the river beside our RV and discovered two guys in rafting shoe type kayaks, one was a teacher and the other a student. Tayla and I tried keeping our hands in the river water and failed to keep them in longer than three minutes and these guys while in dry suits, their hands and faces were in the freezing water, obviously locals. The student tipped upside down a few times and got washed away in the fast flowing river, always rolling himself back into the upright position, but one time, we thought he was a goner, but he removed himself from the kayak and hung to its side until he got to an area where he could swim to the rivers edge and walk back.
Weather: Warm by day, freezing by night.
Wildlife: Ground Squirrels.
Low: -2 Celsius High: 10
O/N N 60 42.089 W 135 02.743
This Photo - leaving Alaska
Miles Canyon, Yukon River, Whitehorse
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