Sternwheeler SS Klondike, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
Kodak DC50 photo by Nelson Kibler
White Pass & Yukon Locomotive, Whitehorse
Kodak DC50 photo by Nelson Kibler
This was a day off from riding. I spent the entire day (8:00
AM-11:30 PM) editing photos from previous days, entering text and uploading
new web pages, mostly at YukonWeb
webmaster Richard Lawrence's home.
There are two really great Native crafts stores in Whitehorse that I had
hoped to get to during my visit. One specializes in Innuit crafts and the
other in Yukon Native crafts. We've bought things from each in the past.
It was Sunday and by the time I broke for dinner with my riding companions,
the stores were closed, so I failed.
We ate an excellent (though expensive: >$30 each) dinner at the Cellar
at the Edgewater Hotel. Then I went back to programming at Richard's house
and got all my work uploaded. When I finally got to my hotel room, I turned
on the television and was amazed to see that Channel 4 on Whitehorse cable
TV (also Watson Lake) is WDIV Channel 4 from Detroit. All the way up here
I can't get away from Detroit crime reports.
Nelson visited Whitehorse and managed to get some photos with the Kodak
DC50.
Whitehorse has grown immensely since we first traveled through in 1973. It is almost as big now as Fairbanks. Both towns serve as frontier outposts, serving as supply centers for thousands of folks who live in the bush. Both were founded because of their proximity to gold. And both are major tourist destinations.
Whitehorse evokes images of Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, the
Klondike gold rush, and, like Fairbanks, a couple of period authors: Robert
Service and Jack London. Service's "The Cremation
of Sam McGee" is a classic poem of the gold rush and London's "Call
of the Wild" is a classic story of the the folks who inhabited the
Yukon during the gold rush.
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