Cold, rainy and cloudy, typical Southeast Alaska weather dominated all of our days here in Alaska so far. This week Rachel and I toured Skagway with Sahara. At the Gold Rush National Park Museum we learned about a very famous and strong women, Harriet Pullen who became the "Mother of Skagway" and we watched a film about the madness that came to Skagway and Dyea from all the Stampeders seeking gold, starting in 1898. The Gold Rush Cemetery and Reid Falls hike was a great way to spend a day enjoying the awesome power of mother nature's rushing waterfalls. In the cemetery, Soapy (Jefferson) Smith who was the town's most notorious con man is buried, along with the man who shot him, Frank Reid. Another hike took us to the Yakutania Point with great views of
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