Our trip this pass week was a Ferry ride from Skagway to Haines Alaska. As I wrote earlier, our plan in 2015 was to go from Haines to Skagway. That ferry trip was cancelled, was do to issues with the larger ferry boat.
Well this time we got it off out bucket list, except going the opposite way. As the adventure closed out on Skagway we spend the day hiking and walking the town.
So, what Susan and I did was capture some video moments entering and exiting the ferry. Enjoy.
Oh wait, you want more info on Skagway? Like were we stayed and what there is to do? There are alot of side trips you can do, train ride, Walk the Chilkoot Pass or the White Pass Trail
Quote -
“Whichever trail you took you wish you had taken the other.”
- Tappan Adney, Journalist, writing about 1897 in The Klondike Stampede, 1900.
Skagway and Dyea are two important entry points into the interior of Canada because of their location at the end of the Inside Passage. When the first gold prospectors arrived at the end of the Lynn Canal in 1897 they had to make a decision. They could choose the 45 mile White Pass Trail out of Skagway or the 33 mile Chilkoot Trail out of Dyea. The two trails end at the shores of Lake Bennett in the Yukon Territory at the headwaters of the Yukon River. Both trails are ice free and low in elevation making them the most practical way to cross over the Coastal Mountains into the interior of Canada. The White Pass Trail lacked the steep slopes of the Chilkoot, but it was 10 miles longer and had its own obstacles. The trail became clogged with mud during the wet fall months of 1897, making it impassable at some spots.
“There ain’t no choice, one's hell and the other damnation.”
-Martha Ferguson McKeown, The Trail Lead North: Mont Hawthorne’s Story, 1948.
Only the ones on the Journeys will come.
Sake Travels and Journeys
Susan, Dakota, Tilly and Me
DaGirls Rv AkA Gus
P.S.
Dry Camping 14
Nights Total 32
Average Nightly Rate $14.27
Total Cost Rates $482.00
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