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Although we were still in the Yukon, we caught this shot of the unofficial Alaska State Bird.
Capture Date: Aug 17, 2013 02:35 PM•Views: 99
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Moose Creek Lodge Business Center with radio telephone in tree. Sorry, no Wi-Fi....Maybe next year.
Upload Date: Sep 12, 2013 02:40 PM•Views: 96
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Highway 1 out of Moose Creek towards Dawson City, YT
Capture Date: Aug 17, 2013 02:47 PM•Views: 97
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Sign about the Tintina Trench, a large valley extending through the Yukon. It is the northern extension of the Northern Rocky Mountain Trench in British Columbia and it has its origin from the Tintina Fault
Capture Date: Aug 17, 2013 04:05 PM•Views: 99
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Tintina Trench, the large valley seen spreading out across the distance
Capture Date: Aug 17, 2013 04:04 PM•Views: 95
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Tailings from mammoth gold dredges around Dawson, used in early 20th century with Rockefeller and Guggenheim family financing that decimated many square miles of the countryside around Dawson. With the top soil washed away the flora could not recover. In separating the gold flakes from the gravel they estimated $0.09/cubic yard would be profitable, (they did not have to restore the land). One dredge averaged 13 cents/cubic yard. When US went on gold standard they began to cease operations as unprofitable.
Capture Date: Aug 17, 2013 04:52 PM•Views: 95
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Dawson. It drizzled part of the day in Dawson, and it has no paved streets, but we were assured all the walks were boardwalks. NOT! Well Dawson City today is all about recreating the feel of the gold rush.
Capture Date: Aug 17, 2013 05:00 PM•Views: 99
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Side street from hotel down to main street. Street had nearly dried up in dry climate and gravel soil the next day
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 12:23 PM•Views: 99
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Westmark Inn was a good hotel. Not a great hotel, but certainly good. Still some puddles to skip over this next day which was sunny.
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 12:31 PM•Views: 94
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Dawson where they endeavor to keep the old time theme for all the buildings…
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 12:04 PM•Views: 95
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…sometimes carrying this effort to extremes.
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 03:06 PM•Views: 97
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We were considering buying one of these fixer uppers as a Canadian investment until we heard about the unsolvable permafrost problem on the foundations.
Upload Date: Sep 12, 2013 02:37 PM•Views: 96
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Diamond Tooth Gerties, saloon, casino, and showroom all in one barn like room. Many of us tiptoed through the mud the first night the3-4 blocks from the hotel to see this Gay Nineties variety show.
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 12:25 PM•Views: 99
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River Raft Float and Eagle Viewing ride down the Klondike River early morning. Sit and swivel into the raft. That's my girl, Sharon LOML (Love Of My Life) gracefully sliding into the Kevlar raft.
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 09:30 AM•Views: 95
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We left the hotel at 7 AM and got on the raft at about 7:30 It was cool on the river, so we bundled up. This is the Klondike River which flows into the Yukon about 5 miles downstream. Our float was 6 miles down to and onto the Yukon River.
Capture Date: Aug 18, 2013 09:31 AM•Views: 98
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