Blogs from Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, North America - page 5

I now know how Creedence Clearwater Revival came up with the song "Stuck in Lodi". Although i have been to Lodi and Dawson is a far better place to be stuck in. Basically the "top of the World Highway" is washed out again and the Yanks are trying vigorously to fix it as i type. Adam and I will be here until Thursday morning when the road allegedly opens and execute one of 2 plans..... Plan "A" .....the road opens and we head north to Prudhoe Bay and resume our itinerary. Plan "B"......the road is still closed so we head 650 kms south and attempt the North Canol Highway via Ross River and....depending on time constraint....head north to Prudhoe Bay again. Plan B means that my new knobby rear tires will be shot before Prudhoe Bay ... read more

pul·chri·tu·di·nous (pŭl'krĭ-tōōd'n-əs, -tyōōd'-) adj. Characterized by or having great physical beauty and appeal. So where did we leave off... Oh yeah we just spent the day in Skagway Alaska and now (July 16, 2010) are off to explore the Yukon. We left Skagway at about 9:30am and headed over the White Pass. The White Pass was built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush, this narrow gauge railroad is an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, a designation shared with the Panama Canal, the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty. It climbs almost 3000 feet in just 20 miles and we got to see very LITTLE of it because of the rain and clouds. O.K!!!! enough clouds already!!!! We were seriously riding in the clouds over the White Pass and saw very little of anything. ... read more

So, Another wet day here in Dawson. It doesn't matter which way we go from here....we're gonna get wet! We made the decision last night to head north to Prudhoe Bay Alaska and get the wet/muddy bhit out of the way early in the trip. Today we spend time at our wet campground changing out our road tires for knobbies/dirt tires for the gravel mud roads ahead. Breakfast was British Army ration "sausage and beans" and we then caught the ferry into Dawson to get internet access and rain gear. We'll be off tomorrow morning early and hope to ride the "top of the World" highway to Chicken Alaska (possibly even further) before heading to Fairbanks the next day. I doubt I'll be in internet coverage until Fairbanks so please be patient in the meantime. I ... read more

Monday 24th May 2010 We went to a gold dredge in Dawson City. Dad and I saw a beaver swimming in a stream next to the dredge. My favourite thing was going panning in Gold Bottom creek .The water was cold and we found tiny specks of gold in our pans, after shaking the dirt and rocks in the stream. My pieces of gold were the biggest. ... read more

Should have waited for the rain to stop before tackling the Top Of The World Hwy. Got cold and miserable. To get gas in the town of Chicken instead of a chicken burger would have been a good idea. Got to Dawson city in the Yukon with 5 miles to spare. Lesson learned. The spell of long goneby days of the gold rush in Dawson City as in Robert Service, Diamond Tooth Gerties and Jack London. Huge indigenous population. Sense of freedom and harshness, even more laid back than Alaska?... read more