The White Pass
I'm actually in Whitehorse this week. While the last few days will be work related, I took the first couple as leave to do the tourist thing. Yesterday we drove out to Skagway, Alaska.
The town is now little more than a tourist trap for cruise ships, but was originally important for its use as the port where those heading to the Yukon for the Klondike Gold Rush would be dropped off to head over the mountains into Canada.
Anyway, I snapped off dozens of photos of the beautiful landscapes between Whitehorse and Skagway of which I thought I would post a few examples.
Unfortunately, the pass itself lived up to its name and was white with fog and snow which reduced visibility to a few dozen feet, blocking what I was told were some truly spectacular views. Also made me quite glad I wasn't the one driving. Today we're heading out to a National Park of some sort, so I should have several more photos by the end of the day to post.
Also, what might just be an eerie coincidence. In the Gold Rush Graveyard outside of Skagway, I stumbled across a grave marker for the Reverend Archibald Campbell. I don't know if that has anything to do with this guy, but the odds of finding such a thing within a couple of days of finding his site just struck me as weird.
