Sunday, June 29, 2014

Fort Selkirk


Fort Selkirk is a place that you can only get to by river or air. It is a pre Klondike Gold Rush settlement who's history goes back to Hudson's Bay Company fur trading days



This is the oldest standing building in the Yukon



Yukon River trip






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The Klondike Gold Rush route in pictures


Chilkoot Trail

Bennett Lake, the first in the chain of lakes that mark the Yukon river portion of the gold rush route, after taking either the Chilkoot Trail or White Pass from salt water.



Miles Canyon

An excerpt from one of Jack London's Smoke Bellew stories describing the gold rush trail and the passage through Miles Canyon



Lake Laberge

Five Finger Rapids



Dawson City (click to enlarge)





Hub Saloon