We travelled here this time by coach and train from Whitehorse. The skies are clear and there’s only one ship in port. It’s a totally different place this time.
But I’m jumping ahead of myself. The route is by road to White Pass where we join the famous White Pass Yukon Route train. This follows the route original gold prospectors took as gold fever drove them through mountainous territory between Skagway and the Canadian Klondike. The route climbs to White Pass at 3000 feet in just 20 miles and was completed in 1900. It was designated an historic civil engineering landmark in 1994, an honour shared with the likes of the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty.
Our cameras were running hot on this trip, but in the end it got too much for us - it is so breathtaking in the end we gave up with the camera and just tried to absorb the landscape in all its grandeur. We felt especially blessed, as our Scenic Tour group did part of the trip as a shore excursion 3 weeks ago in the rain so would have seen nothing like this, the mountains would have been shrouded in clouds.
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