Day 10 of Trip – Day 2 in Skagway, July 9th

Scenic overlook of Skagway Harbor.

We dropped Wm off at the Chilkoot trailhead 8:30 AM on Friday July 9^th.

We will see him again on Monday, July 12^th, at the White Pass train stop at Bennett Lake.

Peter & I, being the hearty souls that we are, will take a bus to the top of the trail.

Slide cemetery has a few of the 200 “stampeders” (Gold miners) that died in an avalanche

on Good Friday, 1896, along the Chilkoot trail.

Many graves are unidentified but this MN man is remembered.

Today’s history lesson:
100,000 men and women headed north to the Klondike Gold fields in the Yukon,
but only 30,000 – 40,000 actually reached the fields.
4,000 or so prospectors found Gold but only a few hundred became rich.

On our way to a short hiking trail in Skagway we met Heather from Australia,
a passenger from the Carnival cruise liner that was docked at the harbor.
She wanted to do the short hike but her husband and son did not so we walked together.
Their family flew to Hawaii, did some touring, flew to Seattle, toured, and picked up the cruise there.
(She said there was a very interesting underground tour of Seattle.)
Anyway, to make a long story somewhat shorter, they’ll head to Whistler, BC,
and then fly to Wisconsin, of all places, to the Oshkosh Air Show.
She wondered if Minnesota was north of WI but then what do I know about Australian geography.

A true Flower Bed!

Do we look like tourists?

Another highly prevalent wild flower, the wild iris.