#chilkoot trail alaska

[betweenapitchandacast]

8 Spectacular Hiking Trails in the Mountains

#Mountain #hiking is like no other. It presents a rugged world full of unspoiled sights. But these spectacular hiking trail in the mountains are in a class of their own. See this list!

North America boasts stunning scenery from the west coast to the east coast. The views are truly breathtaking, including the rugged Rocky Mountains, the pristine Sierra Nevadas, and the timeless Appalachians, to name a few. Many people see mountain ranges as a place to escape and enjoy outdoor activities, while others view them as a thrilling adventure in nature’s playground. These untouched…

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[preacherpollard]

"May Your Silver Perish With You"

Neal Pollard Brian Castner has written an excellent book called Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike. In it, he chronicles the history of the gold rush to Alaska that occurred at the turn of 20th Century. There had been an economic depression in the 1890s that was just starting to lift around the time reports came out of the Klondike that people were striking it rich way up north.…

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#Alaska #avalanche #Canada #Chilkoot Trail #covetousness #Dawson City #gold fever #greed #Jack London #Klondike #Skagway #typhoid #White Pass

[andrasthehun]

Hiking the Chilkoot Trail in Alaska and Yukon

Hiking the Chilkoot Trail in Alaska and Yukon

December 24. 2022. I looked in horror to see Kathy sink in the snow, walking twenty feet in front of me. She was down to her waist before she stopped sinking. I lurched forward and flattened myself on the snow-covered field reaching towards her with my outstretched walking pole. With effort by both of us, she crawled out of the snow with a disbelieving smile on her face.  Deeply etched in my…

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[lionfloss]

Chilkoot Trail, Alaska

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[rabbitcruiser]

Yukon River, Whitehorse (No. 3)

The generally accepted source of the Yukon River is the Llewellyn Glacier at the southern end of Atlin Lake in British Columbia. Others suggest that the source is Lake Lindeman at the northern end of the Chilkoot Trail. Either way, Atlin Lake flows into Tagish Lake (via the Atlin River), as eventually does Lake Lindeman after flowing into Bennett Lake. Tagish Lake then flows into Marsh Lake (via the Tagish River). The Yukon River proper starts at the northern end of Marsh Lake, just south of Whitehorse. Some argue that the source of the Yukon River should really be Teslin Lake and the Teslin River, which has a larger flow when it reaches the Yukon at Hootalinqua. The upper end of the Yukon River was originally known as the Lewes River until it was established that it actually was the Yukon. North of Whitehorse, the Yukon River widens into Lake Laberge, made famous by Robert W. Service's "The Cremation of Sam McGee". Other large lakes that are part of the Yukon River system include Kusawa Lake (into the Takhini River) and Kluane Lake (into the Kluane and then White River).

The river passes through the communities of Whitehorse, Carmacks, (just before the Five Finger Rapids) and Dawson City in Yukon, and crossing Alaska into Eagle, Circle, Fort Yukon, Stevens Village, Rampart, Tanana, Ruby, Galena, Nulato, Grayling, Holy Cross, Russian Mission, Marshall, Pilot Station, St. Marys (which is accessible from the Yukon at Pitkas Point), and Mountain Village. After Mountain Village, the main Yukon channel frays into many channels, sprawling across the delta. There are a number of communities after the "head of passes," as the channel division is called locally: Nunum Iqua, Alakanuk, Emmonak, and Kotlik. Of those delta communities, Emmonak is the largest with roughly 760 people in the 2000 census. Emmonak's gravel airstrip is the regional hub for flights.

Source: Wikipedia

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[maryannmackey]

Thirty-nine years later, my life in Alaska isn't even close to what we planned- or rather, what you planned for us, with such exuberance and imagination. I live on a three-acre compound with a cabin, a studio, and a semi functional bathhouse, no fields, greenhouses, livestock, or garden. Last summer, Cheryl did convince me to try raising chickens- everyone in Southeast raises chickens- but after I forgot to feed them and a bloodthirsty marten dug his way into the coop, we both gave up on fresh eggs.  At this point, the only animals on the property are the dogs inside my electric fence and the brown bears outside it, the latter of which lumber through the alders, endlessly puzzled by the lady with long gray braids who marches around with a chain saw, muttering to herself. My generator provides relatively stable power, but landlines and wifi are still impossible this far off the grid.  However it may sound, it's not as if I conquered some corner of the vast Alaskan frontier without your guidance. All that was accomplished over a century before, in the late 1800s when thousands of stampeders built Dyea overnight, seeking gold on the Chilkoot trail. Only to abandon their makeshift city just as quickly over rumors of bigger, wilder riches to be found farther north.  Today, the road outside my compound is paved, the postman delivers. There is a chat board, Cheryl tells me, for all thirty-seven full-time residents. When the cruise ships unload their passengers in Skagway each summer, hundreds of them flock to Dyea for walking tours of the boomtown ruins or eco-adventures down the Taiya River. Every once in a while, an oddball art devotee slips in through the throng, ringing the cowbell on my gate, alarming the dogs

‘Alcan, an Oral History,’ Nobody Gets Out Alive, Leigh Newman

#Books of 2023 #Book Four #Nobody Gets Out Alive #Leigh Newman

[mancalledhorsenoname]

Chilkoot Trail: 33-mile trail through the Coast Mountains that lead from Dyea, Alaska, in the United States, to Bennett, British Columbia, in Canada. It was a major access route from the coast to Yukon goldfields in the late 1890s. The prospectors had to haul a mandatory one ton of supplies over the pass, requiring multiple trips on a treacherous mountain trail.

[rincondejoss]

The Secrets of Chilkoot Trail | Blitz

Middle Grade Fiction Date Published: August 2020     Pearl and her brother, Frances, go on summer vacation each year with their adventurous grandparents. This year, they’re going to Alaska. The only glitch, if that is what it can be called, is that CJ is going too. He is the foster kid their grandparents are taking care of until his father gets well. After hiking along the historic Chilkoot…

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#spotlight #tours

[thebridgeofdeaths]

The Secrets of Chilkoot Trail

by Suse Wilcox Middle Grade Fiction Date Published: August 2020     Pearl and her brother, Frances, go on summer vacation each year with their adventurous grandparents. This year, they’re going to Alaska. The only glitch, if that is what it can be called, is that CJ is going too. He is the foster kid their grandparents are taking care of until his father gets well. After hiking along the…

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[native-blog-deutsch]

Neue Videoserie beleuchtet die indigene Geschichte des berühmten Chilkoot Trails

Parks Canada und die Carcross/Tagish First Nation in Yukon haben sich zusammengetan, um die Geschichte des Trails und der Region zu erzählen.

In der populären Geschichte des Chilkoot Trails, der in den 1890er Jahren Tausende von goldhungrigen Stampedern zum Klondike brachte, wurde die Bedeutung des Gebiets für die indigenen Völker oft übersehen. Eine neue Videoserie will das ändern. Er hat Legenden hervorgebracht, eine Ära geprägt und einige der berühmtesten Fotografien des 19. Jahrhunderts hervorgebracht. Jahrhunderts. Doch der populäre Mythos des Chilkoot Trails, seine Geschichte und Bedeutung, hat die Menschen oft davon abgehalten, sich jenseits des ausgetretenen Pfades der Siedlergeschichte umzusehen und zu erkunden. Eine neue Kunstausstellung in Whitehorse, zu der auch eine neue Videoserie gehört, will das ändern.   "Wir sind immer so sehr damit beschäftigt, die Siedler und den Klondike-Goldrausch zu fördern. Wir wollten die Geschichten aus unserer Perspektive erzählen - aus der Sicht der First Nations, der indigenen Völker", sagt Gary Sidney Johnson von der Carcross/Tagish First Nation im Yukon. Er hat die Musik für die Videoserie "Precious Places" komponiert, die von seiner First Nation in Zusammenarbeit mit Parks Canada produziert wurde. Die Idee des Projekts ist es, die indigene Bedeutung des Weges und der Region zu erkunden.

Wir wollten die Geschichten aus unserer Perspektive, aus unserem Blickwinkel erzählen", sagt Gary Sidney Johnson, der die Musik für die Videoserie komponiert hat. (Cheryl Kawaja/CBC) Um seine Musik zu komponieren, verbrachte Johnson einige Zeit damit, den traditionellen Pfad zu wandern, der in der Gegend existierte, lange bevor die Stampeders in den 1890er Jahren ankamen und sich ihren eigenen Weg zum Klondike bahnten. "In der Vergangenheit habe ich Musik komponiert, bei der ich wusste, was ich komponieren wollte, ich hatte eine Melodie und fügte dann Worte hinzu. In diesem Fall kamen die Worte in der Sprache zu mir. Sie waren nicht auf Englisch. Das hat mich verwirrt", erinnert er sich. "Das war das erste Mal, dass mir das passiert ist, und ich hatte das Gefühl, dass ich zur richtigen Zeit am richtigen Ort war. Es sollte passieren." Der berühmte Chilkoot Trail, den Tausende von goldhungrigen Stampedern benutzten, ist heute eine National Historic Site in Kanada und ein National Historic Trail in den USA. Er führt von Dyea, Alaska, über den Chilkoot Pass hinauf zum Lake Bennett, B.C. Jedes Jahr wandern Tausende von Touristen auf der Route, obwohl dieser Strom von Menschen in den letzten Jahren durch die Pandemie gebremst wurde. In diesem Jahr beginnen die Zahlen gerade wieder zu steigen. Die Wanderung auf dem Pfad ist sowohl eine körperliche Herausforderung als auch eine Geschichtsstunde - weggeworfene Überreste des Goldrausches sind immer noch auf dem Weg verstreut zu sehen. Edna Helm ist eine Carcross/Tagish-Älteste, deren Familie seit Generationen in der Gegend um Bennett lebt. Sie ist in einem der Videos zu sehen und spricht über die Bedeutung des Pfades. Für mich bedeutet er viel Geschichte für meine Ureinwohner, die vor dem "goldenen Zeitalter", wie sie es nennen, hier waren, als sie das Gold fanden", sagt sie. "Du sitzt da und schaust und fühlst mehr oder weniger die Anwesenheit der Menschen, die vorher hier waren, was sie sahen und was sie schützten." Helm hat auch darüber nachgedacht, ob die Stampeders in ihrer verrückten Eile, die Goldfelder zu erreichen, jemals wirklich bemerkt haben, wo sie waren. Lesen Sie den vollständigen Originalartikel bei CBC. Read the full article

[placeswordsdreams]

Chilkoot Trail, Alaska

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[andrasthehun]

Hiking the Chilkoot Trail in Alaska and Yukon

Hiking the Chilkoot Trail in Alaska and Yukon

December 24, 2022 I looked in horror to see Kathy sink in the snow, walking twenty feet in front of me. She was down to her waist before she stopped sinking. I lurched forward and flattened myself on the snow-covered field reaching towards her with my outstretched walking pole. With effort by both of us, she crawled out of the snow with a disbelieving smile on her face.  Deeply etched in my…

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#alaska #backpack #bears #bennett lake #best experience in life #chilkoot traill #deep memory #freeze dried food #hiking #rangers #skagway #walkng poles #yukon

[vintagecamping]

I just returned from spending the last 7 days exploring Alaska. What a breathtakingly beautiful state. If you have the resources I highly recommend visiting...

#vintage camping #campfire lights #skagway #alaska #chilkoot trail #hiking #climbing #history #educational #mountaineering #juneau #ketchikan #1930

[whittychristianuk]

The gang.

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[stonetriggerpress]

Chillin' on the Chilkoot Bingo

Chillin’ on the Chilkoot Bingo

Chilkoot Bingo cards in the drying rack.

I outdid myself with the complexity of my Chilkoot Bingo game. I created Chilkoot Bingo as a part of my Chilkoot Trail Artist Residency. Sponsored by the Yukon Arts Centre, Parks Canada and the US National Park Service and the Skagway Arts Council with support from the Skagway Traditional Council and Alaska Geographic I will be taking a creative journey…

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#Alaska Geographic #Bingo #Chilkoot Artist Trail Residency #Chilkoot Trail #Parks Canada #Skagway Arts Council #Skagway Traditional Council #US National Park Service #Yukon Art Center

[petsincollections]

Chilkat men with pack oxen on Chilkoot Trail, Alaska, 1897

Five Chilkat men pose with two heavily-loaded pack ox and a miner on the Dyea trail, also known as the Chilkoot trail. One man holds bunch of Evernina vulpina, "wolf moss" used in dying wool for Chilkat blankets

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest -- Image Portion

University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections

#oxen #trails #alaska #chilkat #university of wasington libraries