We slept on our just before Tok and soon found ourselves on the “Top of the World Highway” towards Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, Canada. The 280 km long…
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Yukon Route & White Pass Railroad to Skagway, Alaska!
Today we left Whitehorse to get to Skagway, Alaska – by train! The scenic train route between Carcross and Skagway was reopened 1988 just for tourism. Originally, it was built…
Whitehorse on a horse
As we had some time left in Whitehorse, we decided to do some horseback riding. We found a nice place called Sky High Wilderness Ranch as a base for doing…
Whitehorse – Yukon capital
When we got back from Carmacks, we still had a couple of days to spend in Whitehorse. Fortunately, there are a lot of potential activities around town! On the first…
Yukon Canoe Trekking Day 6 & Carmacks!
To our surprise it was raining when we woke up. The only logical solution to this is to not get up for another 2 hours – what we did. But…
Yukon Canoe Trekking Day 5
Goal today was to pass the “village” of Little Salmon and find a nice, last camp just before Carmacks. Like Big Salmon, Little Salmon was a former gold rush village…
Yukon Canoe Trekking Day 4
Leaving Hootalinqua behind us, we paddled further north down the river. With an average speed of 12 km/h, we advanced fast. But compared to the day before, the river got…
Yukon Canoe Trekking Day 3
Almost done! 8km were left this morning for finishing the strenuous paddling over Lake Laberge. After a little bit more than an hour, we finally got to the end of…
Yukon Canoe Trekking Day 2
Our first morning in the wild introduced us to our new morning routine of getting the food bag down from the tree, making & eating breakfast, cleaning dishes, packing tent,…
Yukon Canoe Trekking Day 1
In the morning of our first day in Whitehorse, we prepared our packs, went to do some much needed grocery shopping and got our booked canoe at UpNorth. It all…