5/16/06 to 5/18/06 - Whitehorse, YT
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5/16/06 - Yukon River as we are heading into Whitehorse
5/16/06 - Mike tasting beer at the Yukon Brewing Company, Yukon's only brewing company
5/16/06 - Mike in front of the Yukon Brewing Company with his "Thirst Aid Kit", a 12-pack of four of their beers
5/16/06 - The Yukon Brewing Company's truck
5/16/06 - Bronze sculpture in front of fire department
5/16/06 - Closeup of the bronze sculpture in front of the fire department
5/16/06 - Recreation cabin at Caribou RV Park
I5/16/06 - nside the recreation cabin at Caribou RV Park
5/16/06 - Inside the recreation cabin at Caribou RV Park
5/16/06 - Mike splitting wood at the Caribou RV Park
5/16/06 - Bob, Susan Mike and Mary; Bob and Mary are the people we met at the Nisutlin Bridge overlook outside Teslin.
5/17/06 - Float plane on Schwatka Lake
5/17/06 - Miles Canyon and the Yukon River
5/17/06 - Susan with Miles Canyon and the Yukon River in background
5/17/06 - Mike with Miles Canyon and the Yukon River in the background
5/17/06 - Yukon River, the color of the river is REAL!!! It is incredibly beautiful.
5/17/06 - Foot bridge across the Yukon River down in Miles Canyon
5/17/06 - Mike and Susan with the Yukon behind down in Miles Canyon
5/17/06 - Mike with two brothers we met down in Miles Canyon. Neil, on the right is from Fraser, BC up visiting his brother, Ken
5/18/06 - Dam and Fishway. The fishway is the longest wooden fish ladder in the world measuring 366 meters or about 1,100 feet and rises over 15 meters or approximately 45 feet..
5/18/06 - The Fishway flows from mid-July to early September during salmon spawning season. In the mid-1950s, when the dam was built, the fishway was built to ensure that the salmon could bypass the dam and reach spawning grounds upstream.
5/18/06 - The Whitehorse Fishway contains underwater viewing windows as well as outside viewing platforms and the fish ladder.
5/18/06 - Fishway - The fishway or ladder is built in a series of steps.
5/18/06 - Schwatka Lake for the dam
5/18/06 - Piers in the snow and Yukon River beyond
5/18/06 - McBride Museum
5/18/06 - McBride Museum; some of the animals on display
5/18/06 - McBride Museum; grizzly bear
5/18/06 - McBride Museum; gold mining exhibit
5/18/06 - McBride Museum; Mike in front of Engine 51. Engine 51 is a wood-fired Books Mogul 2-6-0 built in 1881 in New York and shipped north in 1898 to help build the White Pass and Yukon Railway. It was rebuilt in 1900 and re-named Engine No. 51. She operated as a passenger and freight train between Skagway and Whitehorse from 1901 to 1919. By the 1920's sternwheeler excursions to the Southern Lakes region of the Yukon were very popular. Part of the trip involved transferring passengers from Tagish Lake overland by rail to Atlin Lake. The Taku Tramway was nicknamed the World's Shortest Railway. Engine No. 51 ran this line until 1931 when she returned to service on the WP&YR line and operated as a freight engine until 1941. During WWII and the construction of the Alaska Highway, the White Pass engines were required to haul heavy loads of supplies and equipment. Engine No. 51 was replaced by a new and more powerful diesel locomotive.
5/18/06 - McBride Museum; Susan in front of Sam McGee's house
5/18/06 - McBride Museum; inside Sam McGee's house
5/18/06 - McBride Museum; inside Sam McGee's house
5/18/06 - McBride Museum; telegraph office build in 1900
5/18/06 - McBride Museum; outside walls of the telegraph office
5/18/06 - McBride Museum; Eliason Motor Toboggan build in 1953
5/18/06 - McBride Museum; Polaris snowmobile from about 1961
5/18/06 - McBride Museum; old tire and tread
5/18/06 - McBride Museum; cache were food was kept
5/18/06 - McBride Museum; painting of Whitehorse Rapids. The name Whitehorse was in common use by the late 1800s. It is believed that the first miners in the area thought that the foaming rapids resembled white horses' manes and so named the river rapids.
5/18/05 - Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre; Mike using atlatl, object called an atlatl which acts as an arm extension and flings the spear. !
5/18/05 - Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre; Mike using atlatl,. He was pretty good at it and said the motion was not unlike fly fishing.
5/18/05 - Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre; Susan using atlatl. I, on the other hand, would starve to death!
5/18/05 - Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre; Mike with Woolly Mammoth
5/18/06 - The world's largest weather vane. It is a Douglas CD-3. It flew for several Yukon airlines from 1946 until 1970 when it blew an engine during takeoff. The plane was restored and mounted on a rotating pedestal in 1981. It now acts as a weathervane, pointing its nose into the wind.
5/18/06 - Mike and Eve. Eve, along with her husband, Herb own of the Caribou RV Park
5/18/06 - Herb is a fantastic artist as well as owner of the Caribou RV Park. His wildlife photography is fantastic as is his carvings.
5/18/06 - One of Herb's carvings. If we had a house I would have bought this!!