WomanOnHerBike: August 2018

Saturday, August 25, 2018

Haines for the last time

Not sure if I'll be back this way again, but it's been worthwhile. I like Alaska.

Tea time in Paradise

At the Skagway ferry terminal. Got leftover fuel and it's not coming home with me.

Before there was fake news, there was news too good to be true

The devil was in the details...

Oh the places you’ll go

Well behaved women rarely make history

Postcard from the past

Yes, that was my shoe that I left on Chilkoot Pass. I did great in Dawson City, separating the Klondike miners from their gold.

Friday, August 24, 2018

Natural and happens every 75 years

A new forest cycle will start from this.

Not mist

Lightning started a forest fire 3 weeks ago on the Atlin side in BC

Carcross, YK

Time for a curry chicken empanada and a large cappuccino for the bus ride back to America.

Could be NZ

Lake Bennett in luxury

Inside our White Pass Yukon Railroad car

Hey you still took my $121 for the train/bus back to Skagway

Ha ha ha

Ha ha

Stinky people quarantined

Aboard

Me and the stampeder dummy in the Station museum

Almost done

The best bear to meet on the Chilkoot Trail

Been here a year ago

Train due any minute

At Bennett

I'm smiling because I've made it to Bennett by 9:15am. Plenty of time to wait for the train. The last mile of sand was the icing on the cake. I found new foot muscles to twinge.

6:30am at Bare Loon shelter

I got up at 5am but it was dark and too scary to start. So I fining last breakfast oatmeal and sucked down a cup of over sweet cocoa mix. The local loon was still calling from the lake.

Even the loo is scenic

9pm at Bare Loon Lake

I was so tired at one point on the last "3 miles" (bullshit), I sat on a rock and cried. But my Canadian hiker cohort was there to greet me. I'm the first to break camp and the last one in, it seems.

Skeleton boat at Deep Lake

Deep Lake CG is empty

The hiking season is definitely winding down.

Deep Lake

The most heavenly location for a campground you can imagine.

1:30pm at Long Lake

Stampeders paid boatmen to float their gear to Deep Lake, Lindeman Lake and Lake Bennett.

Spirits lift as weather improves

Funny how that works.

Enroute to Long Lake

Tarn

Lichen like I’ve never seen before

Alpine plants

On the trail from Happy Camp to Lindeman City

Heading out of Happy Camp at 11am Wednesday

My tent is sodden, ditto boots, backpack. But you have to grit your teeth and just suck it up.

2 effing miles to Happy Camp

Maybe as the raven flies. I almost burst into tears when I finally saw it.

Cascade in the tundra

It’s gorgeous and I’m dead beat

4:45pm in the tundra

After lunch and dry socks in the warming hut at the Canadian warden's hut on Chilkoot Pass, it was an agonizing descent on rock choked gullies to this cross between Iceland and New Zealand.