tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087809431878077662024-03-05T23:00:57.001-08:002dodges2goRambling across the US in a 5th wheelJane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.comBlogger343125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-88510446527534518362018-06-27T16:24:00.000-07:002018-07-17T17:36:23.378-07:006/23/18 - Denali National Park<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spoiler Alert:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We went to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Denali National Park</i></b>
twice, but didn’t see the mountain either time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Apparently only 30% of the visitors who come to Alaska ever get to see
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was thinking about inserting a
picture of Mt. Rainier here, because after all, a volcano is a volcano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">even
I</i> can see they’re not similar, you’ll have to go on your own trip—then let
me know if you fall into the 30<sup>th</sup> or 70<sup>th</sup> percentile. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the way from the
campground to the park, we drove along the Nenana River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We stopped and watched the show for
awhile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Watching is way cheaper (and
warmer and dryer) than actually getting in one of these rafts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the big things on
everyone’s bucket list is to see the wildlife in the park.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the first wild animal we saw that day!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m sure you’re as excited about him as I am.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are two Denali
National Park signs.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The one above is the second sign, inside the park. This one is just before you get to the entrance. I like the other one better. I have no idea why they need two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went to the Wilderness
Access Center to buy bus tickets for Monday, thinking that would be the best
day for weather.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We opted for the 8-9
hour trip on a tour bus because "tour bus" sounds more comfortable than "park school bus".</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(More details
about this on the next post.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next up was the Visitor
Center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a topography map of the
park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The line at the bottom, going past
Healy, then turning up and going Cantwell is the highway from Fairbanks to
Anchorage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you squint a little, maybe
you can make this 3-D map flattened into a 2-D photo, you can probably figure
out which part of the white section is Denali. The orange line is the ONLY road
into the park, and you can only drive 15 miles into the park—anything beyond is
on a tour bus on a gravel road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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line waiting to talk to a ranger, I overheard him give someone info about the
Sled Dog Demonstration.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After watching
the movie, we headed for the bus stop--they're really big on buses here.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Demo was at 2:00, and they kept bringing in more buses until everyone
was on the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sled dogs are kenneled
differently than the family pet.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They
have their own house and are chained to the area.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They have enough slack to get inside, up on
the roof and to play with a friend.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A
lot of them seemed to like napping up on the sundeck, but not all.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They smushed us up into
the bleachers, then the ranger who was narrating started talking to us about the
dogs--not quite as cute as she thought she was, not as bad as some.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These dogs are not just tourist attractions.
They’re actual canine rangers that patrol the park during the winter.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This run around the trees once several times
a day is child’s play to these working dogs.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the demo was over,
and we’d extricated ourselves from the crowd, we wandered until the buses were
ready to take us back.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the sled
building, George got stamps for his NP Passport book.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went back to watching the dogs.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steward seems to be watching something else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back in the truck we headed for one of the stores in the park. I had it in my head that I would actually be able to buy a sweatshirt that says DENALI NATIONAL PARK on it <b>in </b>Denali National Park. I could find t-shirts. I could find hats. I could find a whole lot of junk but no sweatshirts... (Couldn't find bear spray either, but that was okay for now.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m excited about the bus
tour in a few days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come back and check
it out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the meantime, here are more pictures from our first day in the park: <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHskBwXpmF" target="_blank">Denali Natl Park</a></span></div>
<br />Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com0Denali National Park and Preserve, Parks Hwy, Denali National Park and Preserve, AK, USA63.1148002 -151.192605737.4597287 167.3230193 88.7698717 -109.7082307tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-3711198641446368622018-06-27T08:30:00.000-07:002018-07-17T16:18:07.707-07:006/20/18 – Fairbanks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We didn’t just go on tours
while we were in Fairbanks; we wandered around on our own too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s some stuff too good not to
share.</span><br />
<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitor Center</i></b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> near downtown not only has visitor info but also has
exhibits from the University of Alaska’s museum.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’ve never seen so much beading in my life as
I’ve seen in this state!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can
probably tell I’m impressed, because (a) it’s a traditional native form of art
and (b) because I know if I ever tried to do it I’d have zillions of tiny little beads all over the
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you wander thru the
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Near the Visitor Center is
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I kept seeing brochures
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</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to be more impressed than I was, but I wasn't.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">University of Alaska Museum of
the North</i></b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> is divided into regions of the state.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The building is supposed “to convey a sense
of Alaska…evoking images of alpine ridges, glaciers, breakup on the Yukon River
and the aurora.”</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(I’m quoting here; apparently I’m not familiar enough with this state
to identify anything except blocks of ice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I d</span>efinitely don’t see the aurora!</i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue Babe - a mummified steppe bison found in permafrost</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Not too far away is the
Robert G. White Large Animal Research Station (called </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">LARS </i></b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">by the locals.)</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The university is studying
muskox and reindeer.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We didn’t
take the tour, but wandered out to where we could see some of the muskox.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> (We've already seen reindeer.) </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The baby one wandered over to get a drink but
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</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Supposed to be really famous for sandhill cranes.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The only ones we saw were taxidermy
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More of Fairbanks
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<br />Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com0Fairbanks, AK, USA64.8377778 -147.716388864.7297183 -148.0391123 64.9458373 -147.3936653tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-14007350623992712372018-06-26T18:39:00.000-07:002018-07-17T13:28:45.712-07:006/19/18 - Gold Dredge 8 Tour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another 2 for 1 coupon, another tour from the same company
as the Riverboat Discovery Cruise.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This
one was north of Fairbanks in gold rush country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You walk under the Alyeska Pipeline as you head to the train to the dredge. Here the pipeline is above ground but sometimes it's buried.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Those pipes on the left keep the
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They're big on mileage posts around here. I think they're fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We rode out to the dredge on a replica of the Tanana Valley RR narrow guage train like they used when they were mining here.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cute little thing, feels a lot like a ride in
an amusement park.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sort of looked like
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our Engineer was a local high school history teacher, and he gave us a
crash course in Alaska gold mining history.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were stops along the way where there were demos of various mining
techniques, like using a sluice box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And placer mining…dumping the dirt out onto the pile was the best part.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then there's dredging, which is what we came here for. When we got to the Gold Dredge, a woman was on it and she explained how the
dredge and the extraction process worked.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> (Sometimes this stuff is really interesting, but apparently gold mining how-tos weren't sinking into my brain today. I think I got the basics though: gold...gold-rush...rivers...panning, sluicing, dredging...lots of dirt...lots of water...environmental mess!)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wash tubs, like in the last picture, were placed where each
train car would stop and we were shown how to pan for gold.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The tiny little shiny flecks in the bottom of
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They handed each one of us a little bag of dirt.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">troughs of water where you could either sit or stand to pan for
gold.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thought I’d do better if
I were standing than trying to do it sitting down. At least I wouldn't dump a pan full of water into my lap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">George is panning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That’s my pan next to him with dirt but no water in it yet.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You have to pick up a little water and slosh
some of it out.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of the dirt will go
out, but the gold is heavier and will fall back to the lowest part of the
pan.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eventually you get
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first--I think he took pity on me because I was worried I'd tip it too much and dump ALL the dirt, so I wasn't doing a very good job of shaking the water and dirt out of the pan. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you look closely, you’ll see
some color in the pan. ("Color" is what prospectors called the gold left in the pan after you get rid of the dirt and rocks.)</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Our combined total was about $15.)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However much it is, you get to keep the gold. You can have it put into jewelry right there if you want. Since the value of the gold we got was less than the cost of the necklace, we just brought it home with us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They also have have fresh cookies and drinks.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The c</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ookies were good, but I wasn’t in the mood
for more of the same Alaska t-shirts I'd seen the day before. (Actually, the cookies were <i>really </i>good, so I had another. I think George had more than that--every time I looked for him he was dawdling around the nearby t-shirts!)</span><br />
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equipment, abandoned when it was no longer profitable to mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s still an active gold mine nearby but
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our Engineer gave us a little talk about the history of the pipeline.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Those things inside this cutaway are called "pigs" that are used to clean the pipes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When he finished, most of the crowd headed out to the</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> tour buses that were waiting for the cruise ship people.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just in case you're wondering, I didn't get hit with gold fever, so this is probably my first and last attempt at gold mining. It's really rather more work than I'm interested in doing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More pictures of gold mining here: </span><a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHskDPafHy" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Gold Dredge 8</a></div>
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<br />Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com2Gold Dredge 8, 1803 Old Steese Hwy N, Fairbanks, AK 99712, USA64.9393269 -147.6562476000000339.417292399999994 171.03515839999997 90 -106.34765360000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-81875815269747149032018-06-26T15:57:00.000-07:002018-07-09T21:08:28.125-07:006/17/19 – Riverboat Discovery Cruise<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXpbYf14Am6fkM4mgJzBgreQkDeCDeR79JZQ1TzgfpQX5Hpe_pH7QpMD8EQFV_zne0-hWJYvYxctMR2YWRsWgSnrvd_PfOfULQ9yDKiF6FTf1sXo2t60nXPJ5dNeJIHg8NRdkML5Sqtxqs/s1600/Loading+the+boat.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXpbYf14Am6fkM4mgJzBgreQkDeCDeR79JZQ1TzgfpQX5Hpe_pH7QpMD8EQFV_zne0-hWJYvYxctMR2YWRsWgSnrvd_PfOfULQ9yDKiF6FTf1sXo2t60nXPJ5dNeJIHg8NRdkML5Sqtxqs/s320/Loading+the+boat.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had a 2-for-1 coupon from the Alaska TourSaver for a cruise on the
Riverboat Discovery.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We hadn’t cruised
the Mississippi—I thought we should at least cruise the Chena River.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of the people on the cruise were from cruise
ships, coming up from their port on train or tour bus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wandered
around the gift shop, then had lunch, a cozy family style meal at tables shared with friendly total
strangers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The food just kept on coming. It took </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a while to get us all on board.</span><br />
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a Piper Cub right behind us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pilot
brought the floatplane up alongside where he and the narrator had a radio discussion about
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Discovery III is a Sternwheeler, so the paddlewheel is
at the back, not on the side.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Kind of fun to stand at the back of the boat and watch it go around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We saw all kinds of houses along the river, from old log
cabins with antlers on the roof to those under construction, from mansions to
those in complete disrepair, but most in-between them all.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some looked like they belonged in Alaska;
some didn’t.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have noticed that in order
to live in Alaska, you need at least 2 vehicles in your yard (preferably pickup trucks) that
are no longer drive-able.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Then you can add b</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">oats,
snowmobiles, huge woodpiles. True Alaskans may have every vehicle they've ever owned in the yard.</span></div>
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4-time Iditarod Champion Susan Butcher.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Susan died a few years ago, but her husband and daughters still run the
kennels.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We stopped along the bank in front of the house.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> One of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Susan’s daughters was home from college and she commented from
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were “Happy Birthday” pennants hanging by the house
and everyone (dogs included) had on party hats.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Turned out it was the oldest dog’s birthday, but they all got to
celebrate.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of the young puppies had
never been down to the river, so they had a little socialization thing going
on. Makes me want to have a puppy again…at least until I think about it and all the work that entails.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then they harnessed the big dogs to an ATV and made a big
circuit around the property.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They went
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When they got back to the yard and were unharnessed, they
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just a little farther on the river and we stopped at a
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She finished her demonstration and headed to the main part
of the village.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We got off the boat for
this one, and they split us into groups and sent each group to a different part
of the village where we were given presentations about village life.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When it was done, we moved on to a different
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At one place there were reindeer,
who are currently shedding their winter coat.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Makes them look pretty motley.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The antlers are still growing, and are covered in "velvet"--which is really</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">skin, blood vessels, and soft fur. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the Chena Village PO, there’s a statue of Susan Butcher’s
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This cruise didn’t feel as commercial and canned as many
touristy things like this.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For one
thing, they had a lot of young people doing the presentations and they were
naturally ebullient, sharing things they knew from either experience or family
stories. It seemed that everyone involved had known each other for years—the
narrator was a friend of the original Captain Binkley; they both knew Susan Butcher and got her
kennel involved as part of the cruise; the narrator knew an Athabascan Elder
whose idea it was to teach visitors about the old ways and that's how Chena Village came to be.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was a comfortable feeling about their
conversations, letting us recognize the friendships and relationships, but without making us feel
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back at the wharf, we docked next to Discovery II. I wonder if they use this one when there aren't so many people?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've got even more pictures here: <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsmnx9hEs" target="_blank">Riverboat Cruise</a></span></div>
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Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com0Riverboat Discovery Cruise, 1975 Discovery Dr, Fairbanks, AK 99709, USA64.8289276 -147.8652303999999739.306893099999996 170.82617560000003 90 -106.55663639999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-1464086592515549682018-06-25T14:52:00.000-07:002018-07-08T15:53:23.980-07:006/16/18 – North Pole<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, Virginia, there really is a North Pole! And you can go visit Santa there when
you’re in Alaska. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>North Pole is a town </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">near Fairbanks</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in North Star Borough (like a county in most of the rest of the
country).</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About 2,200 people besides Santa and his elves live here
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My niece had asked me to send her pictures of the North Pole, so of course we had to go check it out. Some of it wasn’t quite what I expected...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We stopped by the Visitor Center first—which is one of the things I wasn't expecting. We drove past it, turned around and when the GPS told us we had arrived, we still weren’t sure. It looked unlike any other visitor center I'd ever seen. Yes, that’s grass on the roof. No, it’s not a short house for elves. The bottom part of the building is dug into the ground for insulation. Gets <i>really</i> cold at the North Pole!</span></div>
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House. The building is decorated vaguely
like the Bavarian-styled buildings in Leavenworth, Washington, painted with Christmas
scenes. I think it was painted that way so you could pose in front of a section and use it for your
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Built in 1952 as a grocery store, it has become a big Christmas themed store. My Aunt Dot would have called it a “tourist trap”. We didn’t stop at those when I was a kid. Now I can if I want and can talk George into it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inside is a huge Christmas store full of all kinds of
Christmas decorations as well as standard Alaska tourist junk, all more
expensive than it has to be. They have a
large business sending letters from Santa to kids all over the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought I'd see Mrs. Claus wandering around the store giving out free cookie samples, but they don't even sell cookies in the coffee shop! Another thing (or two) that wasn't expected!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These and a couple more pictures on Flickr: <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsmkJpKSa" target="_blank">North Pole</a><br />
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Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com0North Pole, AK 99705, USA64.7511111 -147.3494442999999664.6969316 -147.51080579999996 64.8052906 -147.18808279999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-15711517923709678812018-06-24T20:41:00.000-07:002018-07-07T20:48:06.615-07:006/15/18 – End of the Alaska Highway<br />
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been in Alaska almost 200 miles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The official
<i><b>End of the Alaska Highway</b></i> is posted in Delta Junction, where it meets the Richardson Highway, even though we've still got a long way to go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We stopped for pictures
at the Visitor Center, but I got distracted by a couple of other things first, like this thermometer with record low temps in Delta Junction. I can't believe the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">winter temperature was -72 degrees
in 1975!!! My mind can't even comprehend that kind of cold. </span></div>
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original road built by the Army in 1942.
They’ve rerouted the road a few times since then, so actual distance 76 years
later is less, only 1,351 miles. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But in</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> many
places, people still identify the Historical MP number to refer to their
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd like to find a t-shirt for George that says <i>“I Survived
the Alaska Highway—Kicking & Screaming All the Way”</i>, but apparently they
don’t make them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surely he’s not the
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had lunch at the Buffalo Drive-In, invited a couple from
Arizona to sit with us, and continued on our way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we crossed the Tanana river, we got our first
glimpse of the Alaska Pipeline. Now it's on to Fairbanks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com02730 Alaska Hwy, Delta Junction, AK 99737, USA64.0328986 -145.708129138.510864099999992 172.9832769 89.5549331 -104.39953510000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-68267528573478456662018-06-24T11:26:00.000-07:002018-07-07T19:51:45.106-07:006/13/18 – Alaska at last!!!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We crossed the border, then stopped for the obligatory pictures at the "Welcome to Alaska" sign at the international boundary.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There’s an
obelisk with </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Canada” </i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on one side and </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“United States” </i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on the other.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can actually see the border because
they’ve mown a 20’-wide swath along the 141</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">st</sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> meridian to mark exactly where it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The US Customs station Port Alcan is about half a mile further on. T</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he sign showed the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">height of the portico was </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12’10”, but we were both concerned because it </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">didn't look high enough for us to go under.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">George was watching up for that, and barely saw a warning light come on as we drove through. </span></div>
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the window, the border patrol guy asked the standard questions. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then he asked if
we’d had any healthcare issues recently.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(That was nice but unprecedented.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“No,” we said.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He asked if there was a</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nything that
could cause the sensors to pick up radiation?</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I told him I’d had radiation treatments last summer.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He seemed to be the only one working the window, so we sat
in the office waiting for him to get a few more people through. Finally he grabbed a
classy looking Geiger counter and went outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was gone about 5 minutes, so after he found the compass, he
probably checked out the rest of the truck. Since he didn’t even ask for keys for the 5<sup>th</sup>
wheel, I knew I didn’t have to worry about putting everything back together before we
could leave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had radium dials—and that was it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who
would have guessed their equipment was that sensitive!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The agent was polite, thanked us, apologized
for the delay, then went back to work. (This is what you get when you travel with old guys who keep souvenirs from their time in the service. When we go home, we'll put the thing on the dash!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A few more pics here: <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsmerKXV7" target="_blank">Entering Alaska</a> </span></div>
<br />Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com0Milepost 1221.8 Alaska Hwy, Tok, AK 99780, USA62.6206498 -141.0076484999999658.8231763 -151.33479699999995 66.4181233 -130.68049999999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-79357708809871435582018-06-23T10:17:00.000-07:002018-07-07T11:09:08.653-07:006/12/18 - Kluane National Park & Preserve<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The drive on the Alaska Highway west from Whitehorse kept
getting more spectacular. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
mountains were getting bigger and closer and whiter.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are the St. Elias Mountains up ahead in
<b><i>Kluane National Park & Reserve</i></b> in Yukon, Canada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We stopped for a break at Historic Canyon Creek Bridge, built by Sam McGee and some other guy for the goldminer's stampede in the early 1900's. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(You probably know Sam McGee's name from the Robert Service poem--this was the real guy.) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a new bridge just behind where I'm standing, but this is most of the original. Looks a lot more interesting than the replacement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haines Junction is on the edge of Kluane National Park. Once
we turned northwest, we could see more of the mountains in the park, although
we weren’t actually in the park at that time.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’d
missed the Visitor Center as we went through town, but I plan to stop on the way
home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have no idea how George can do it, but he can take
pictures while he’s driving without taking his eyes off the road!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frequently he takes pictures of what the same ones I do, and mine are blurry from the bounces on the road and his
horizon is still level.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don’t know the name of the mountain, but look at all those
glaciers!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The park map shows the St. Elias Mountains—the far side
is the Icefield Range and the side near the highway is the Kluane
Range.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There seem to be only two
roads into the park, both noted as “rough, narrow 4x4 road”.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a few hiking trails, but it looks
like an awful lot of work to me.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like
hiking, but tend to choose shorter, less strenuous—and definitely warmer—trails.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just across the Slims River bridge is the </span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thachäl Dhäl </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visitor Centre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The picture of the
building in the brochure looks forest green, but it must be faded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told George to get ready to turn at the
green building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He didn’t think it
looked green.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We finally made it into
the parking lot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Talk about location—the Kluane Range is behind it, across
the road is Kluane Lake and beside the building is Sheep Mountain (now called by it’s
old name </span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Thachäl Dhäl</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sheep Mountain is named for the Dall Sheep which are very
common here.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are powerful
telescopes and binoculars on the deck next to the visitor center, lined up to
see the sheep high up on the mountain.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sheep count today was 30.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You’re
going to have to trust me on this, (and maybe squint and close one eye), but
the White dots are actually Dall Sheep.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The little tiny white dots are lambs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry, but this is the best I can do for long distance with
this camera.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m well aware that there
are cameras who could make them not only visible but really bring out the wow factor.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is real life, long distance, and it's actually more than I
could see just with my eyes.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And there
are really quite a few animals up there—not just signs advising you to look for
the animals.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More pics in Flickr: <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsmerHX1L" target="_blank">Kluane Natl Park & Reserve</a> </span></div>
Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com0Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon, Canada60.75 -139.535.227965499999996 179.191406 86.2720345 -98.191406tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-42145319057261034712018-06-22T09:18:00.000-07:002018-07-07T10:15:49.406-07:006/11/18 – Beringia Interpretive Centre<br />
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the second.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> L</span>ocated right
next door to the Transportation Museum and the Whitehorse Airport, the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yukon
Beringia Interpretive Centre</i></b> is easy to get to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s also easy to recognize even from the
highway because there’s a family of woolly mammoths standing out by the parking
lot, not something you see many places along the Alaska Highway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can’t ever see anymore—a giant beaver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
had to hang onto him to get him to stand still so George could take our
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: right;">followed the path to a building that looks like it’s not
finished yet, although my guess is that the yellow arches are supposed to
signify woolly mammoth tusks or scimitar cat teeth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just inside the door is a giant globe.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was standing there looking at it and a very
nice docent came over, asked if I’d like some information on what I was looking
at.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I said yes and he started explaining
about </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Last Great Ice Age</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. (I
could tell he was capitalizing and italicizing each word as he said it.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was really enthused about this museum and
his job!)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn’t stand in the right place to take the picture, but there’s
a land bridge between North America and Asia that remained uncovered by
glaciers during the Ice Age. This sub-continent of eastern Siberia, Alaska and
Yukon was named “Beringia”, after the Bering Sea.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was cold but didn’t get a lot of precipitation.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without precipitation you don’t get snow and
ice.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without snow and ice, animals can
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Skeletons of prehistoric mammals have been found all over
the area. The most impressive is the
woolly mammoth. I don't know if we're most impressed by big extinct animals because they're big or because they're extinct. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The docent told us that some fossil bones of a big ground sloth had been sent to then VP Thomas Jefferson. The future president not only thought the old bones and claws were from a lion, but he didn't believe in species going extinct and thought these critters were still wandering around the continent. When he sent Louis & Clark out exploring in 1802, he asked them specifically to look for live animals. The docent credits the Jefferson's ground sloth with the expansion of the US. I don't know if that's valid, but Lewis & Clark probably weren't looking forward to dealing with an animal this size, one who probably didn't move as slowly as today's smaller sloths who didn't make it onto the Extinct List. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beringia </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">didn't have saber-tooth tigers.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The region's big cat is called a "Scimitar Cat".</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They mounted the bones, and then reconstructed what they think he might have looked like.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I think paleontologists have finally admitted that they haven’t a clue whether the big cats had stripes.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This one seems to have both--as well as very large teeth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We watched a video—but I think I would have enjoyed talking
to the docent longer.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We had talked about other fossil beds we'd seen during our travels. He was excited that we'd been to Idaho and actually seen a Hagerman horse fossil. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really enjoyed this museum—although I think we missed a section.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The brochure I picked up said there were frozen ice-age carcasses
uncovered by gold miners, and there were exhibits of paleontologists’ work in
northern Yukon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t remember seeing
any of that so I would go again, but George probably won’t want
to when we go back through Whitehorse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pictures are here: <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsmekjUFY" target="_blank">Beringia Interpretive Centre</a> </span></div>
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Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com0Beringia Interpretive Centre, Alaska Hwy, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6E6, Canada60.708813500000012 -135.0790964000000335.186779000000016 -176.38769040000003 86.230848000000009 -93.770502400000026tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-30794182073061534422018-06-21T08:26:00.000-07:002018-07-07T09:17:05.899-07:006/11/18 – Yukon Transportation Museum<br />
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preserve or a transportation museum. He opted for the <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yukon Transportation Museum</i></b>
in Whitehorse. We’d driven past it
several times on the way between the RV park and Whitehorse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There’s also a big airplane on a pedestal out front.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We parked near it and walked over—the sign
says it’s the “World’s Largest Weather-vane”.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seriously???</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got the Yukon Passport stamps inside, paid for discount
tickets at the Transportation Museum and Beringia, and we wandered, sometimes
together, sometimes not because w</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hen it comes to old vehicles, we simply aren't interested in the same things. Often what George considers classic, I consider junk. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is definitely a trains, planes and automobiles kind of place. Trains come in the model variety as well as passenger cars. Planes are suspended from the ceiling. Automobiles are restored...sometimes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since it’s snow country, there are sleighs and
dogsleds.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(I remember when I was a kid
watching a tv show called <i>Sgt. Preston of the Yukon</i> about a Canadian Mountie patrolling the Yukon with his dog King.) </span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some are in pieces, and some are just rusty.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For some reason, I’ve noticed that men often have no problem with this.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I tend to think that if it's in a museum, it should be at least cleaned up, and oxidized metal just doesn't do it for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was surprised when we went back outside and the weather-vane plane had turned almost 90 degrees!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Compare the direction of the plane in relation to our dirty blue
truck.) The ball bearings in that pedestal must be very well balanced!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was skeptical when we got here, but an hour
later I’ve changed my mind--a DC-3 <i>is</i> the world's largest weather-vane!</span></div>
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<br />Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com0Yukon Transportation Museum, 30 Electra Crescent, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 0M7, Canada60.7119887 -135.0791685000000435.1899542 -176.38776250000004 86.2340232 -93.770574500000038tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-36782912474567529712018-06-20T10:44:00.002-07:002018-06-20T10:44:21.456-07:006/10/18 - S.S. Klondike National Historic Site<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCHCV6t6JY27awN7I72v1thcBsGR6e-HkhgjSprKib_gR5KNZF-_SgKrXVIa2Bb38tYbb4aRPsYK2fpxxlBJ4R0G4c-kh1WHaLGjw_QwHZqKi-Yuw9Rliz13yD_yAgB1fqfriZwMwtfBuh/s1600/S.S.+Klondike+sign.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1182" data-original-width="1600" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCHCV6t6JY27awN7I72v1thcBsGR6e-HkhgjSprKib_gR5KNZF-_SgKrXVIa2Bb38tYbb4aRPsYK2fpxxlBJ4R0G4c-kh1WHaLGjw_QwHZqKi-Yuw9Rliz13yD_yAgB1fqfriZwMwtfBuh/s320/S.S.+Klondike+sign.JPG" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Same day, different museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The S.S. Klondike is a big sternwheeler
riverboat that worked on the upper Yukon River from 1929 – 1955.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-spacerun: yes;">It’s actually a Canadian National Historic Site, so there were park rangers in the Visitor Center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going aboard the old vessel is free, but we bought a Self-Guided Tour brochure for $2. The ranger recommended checking out the paddle-wheel first before going inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After looking at the back of the boat (and checking out the line of fishermen in the river), we went up the ramp to the Freight Deck and went inside. They've got it set up to like it would have been when the boat was in service--except the cartons would have been full. These are printed to look like they were made years ago, but for some reason, they all look empty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beyond the boxes and barrels is the Engine Room with steam pipes and pistons and other mechanical pieces, most of which I haven't a clue without asking George. These are real.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After wandering around awhile, looking at things about as interesting as an auto parts store, we went up a very narrow staircase to the Sun Deck, where the sky is becoming ominous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They’re doing some renovations on-board, so there were some areas (the
most interesting ones!) we couldn’t go into:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dining Room,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Passenger Cabins, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Observation Lounge, Boat Deck and Wheelhouse.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Second-class passengers were limited to the freight deck and the sun deck, which was all we got to see. I don't know why we couldn't go first-class!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We could look through the ship's galley into the Dining Room. (Seems to me that Karla said this stuff was closed last year too. Apparently the Canadian parks service is as slow as NPS--I suppose it's all budgets and priorities, but I really wish they'd get their acts together.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looked like a big storm coming, so we didn’t linger.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We did detour to a tent they had near the
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Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com1S.S. Klondike, 10 Robert Service Way, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1V8, Canada60.713362900000007 -135.048262635.1913284 -176.3568566 86.235397400000011 -93.739668599999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-594926540365264872018-06-18T21:38:00.001-07:002018-06-18T21:38:25.546-07:006/10/18 - Old Log Church Museum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Whitehorse, Yukon, is the first "big" city that we've been in since we left Spokane--if you can call 25,000 a big city--so we had to go check it out. We went to the Visitor Center first, then since it was nearby, we went to the Old Log Church Museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The church was/is Anglican (Church of
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Just around the corner from the church<span style="background-color: white;"> <o:p></o:p>is the Log Cabin Skyscraper. It’s a 4-story log cabin, bottom part is a
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Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com0Old Log Church Museum, 303 Elliott Street (corner of 3rd Ave and Elliott St), Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6K8, Canada60.718323999999988 -135.05380435.196289499999992 -176.362398 86.240358499999985 -93.745210000000014tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-14630228500210079772018-06-17T12:03:00.001-07:002018-06-17T12:03:08.340-07:006/8/18 - Teslin Tlingit Heritage Centre<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCEd4EtF0UrQBjy0Rh2Ee7yJnw63MlikgifRL5mM4IdD1ZEGOEiflWTBSkg7RHLw9iq00yV2xfIgRGdmZlazZ4kCE68XgVF-EHUuqqWVuQhvU4sJqHH2BbNxD7TylpegqnEjg0PvIV8FU9/s1600/Teslin+Tlingit+Heritage+Ctr+Entrance+sign.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCEd4EtF0UrQBjy0Rh2Ee7yJnw63MlikgifRL5mM4IdD1ZEGOEiflWTBSkg7RHLw9iq00yV2xfIgRGdmZlazZ4kCE68XgVF-EHUuqqWVuQhvU4sJqHH2BbNxD7TylpegqnEjg0PvIV8FU9/s320/Teslin+Tlingit+Heritage+Ctr+Entrance+sign.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Next stop was a couple of miles down the highway, the
Teslin Tlingit Heritage Centre.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a
museum about the culture of the Inland Tlingit natives.</span></div>
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building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I have problems with
the … on NW Indian art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could figure
out the frog and the beaver. There are two birds--one’s an eagle, one’s bound to be a raven. The last one's just confusing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are both contemporary and traditional artwork in the
museum.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are masks, baskets,
moccasins and mukluks, garments made of cloth and of skins.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I still really like the things with beads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There’s a boathouse down by the lake, with a couple of
painted canoes on the shore.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don’t
know what the images on them are either.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(I should find a book.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We saw a video about the Haa Kusteeyi Celebration hosted </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in Teslin last
year.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year’s festival will be held
in Juneau by the Coastal Tlingit.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From
some of the things that were said in the film, it sounds like there has been an
estrangement, but they’re happy to be reuniting.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The elders teach the young ones traditional
knowledge, a lot of it by respected storytellers.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I have a story,” they say.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then they begin with “Long time ago…"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More pictures on Flickr: <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsmnvHpN2" target="_blank">Teslin Tlingit Heritage Centre</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We hit our first bad construction on the way to Teslin. When Yukon Province gets serious about bad holes and rough patches, they tear it all out to rebuild the whole road. Then they water the softened dirt to make a muddy, mucky mess for the tourists. By the time you get to your destination, your truck and trailer are beyond filthy. (Apparently they need all the water for the water trucks because the RV parks won't let you use their water to wash your vehicles.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although Teslin has a population of fewer than 500, there are a couple of museums right on the highway, starting with the George Johnston Museum. From the highway you see the back of the museum building, much more impressive than the front. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">George Johnston was an Inland Tlingit man who had quite a
history.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was skillful in snowshoes
making, hunting, trapping, boat building.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He bought a mail order camera, and took it everywhere, making a record
of daily events in Inland Tlingit life, and developing the film in his home. The mural below is one of the photographs he took.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">George went to Whitehorse and bought a 1928
Chevrolet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a 15-minute driving
lesson on an airfield, he had the car barged to road-less Teslin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For winter hunting, he painted it white, parked it on the
frozen lake, and waited for the wolves.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He used it for a taxi service too, repainting it black, for 80 miles of
frozen lake and 3 miles of summer road.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the beadwork on these exhibits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">There are some exhibits that show how a trapper lived,
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">More hunter/trapper stuff hanging from the ceiling. I thought this was a sled—George told me it’s a fish
trap.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">And the thing behind it is a bear
skin in a stretcher.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Took some pretty
strong string to stretch a bear skin after it was tanned because no one wants a curly rug!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A Teslin woman tanned the hides from 100 trapped lynx,
sewed them to a Hudsons Bay blanket, added a scalloped caribou border dyed with
mossberry juice for a rare and warm 400 lynx-paw blanket! I have no idea how
old it is, but it’s pretty impressive and I'll bet really warm! </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I’d forgotten lynx grew a white winter coat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Across the parking lot is another small building.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It has displays from the 1942 Aeradio
Navigation Range Station that guided planes from 1941 to the late 1960s.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Check out the old radios.</span></div>
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Same pictures, plus a few more here: <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsmmGZ1No" target="_blank">George Johnston Museum</a> </div>
Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com0George Johnston Museum, 804 Alaska Hwy, Teslin, YT Y0A 1B0, Canada60.1677377 -132.7209477-7.0638498 62.044677299999989 90 32.513427299999989tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-29069863222805895502018-06-16T21:47:00.001-07:002018-06-16T21:47:08.454-07:006/5/18 – Alaska Highway Mile 0 and Heading North <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We crossed the border into Canada at Eastport,
ID, on May 24th.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> O</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ne week and 1,500 miles<span style="background-color: white;"> </span>later we arrived at Dawson Creek, BC, the </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">START</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of the Alaska Highway. </span><br />
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so you’ll pay attention.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This one is in
both English and French.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Most of the rest
are simply road signs with a picture of the animal you’re supposed to watch out
for.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We saw more signs than critters for
days.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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way down in case there are frost heaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So far the road hasn’t been awful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There’s been a little road maintenance, and some patches, but rarely has
it been as bad as we were warned it would be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Much of the road through BC had a lot of straight
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We stayed a couple of nights at Toad River Lodge, with a
campsite right on Reflection Lake.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When
we got there, neighbors on both sides told us we had the best site in the
campground.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The day before</i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> there were moose right out the back window, including
a wobbly-kneed baby.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We saw moose, but
they were all across the river, and never saw the baby.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">There’s
a beaver dam and lodge around the corner from our site—we saw one beaver
swimming.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We watched a pair of trumpeter
swans float all over the place.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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My favorite day was between Toad River and Watson Lake,
driving through Muncho Lake Provincial Park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We’d had rain the day before and the skies were gray at first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We stopped at a pullout by an alluvial fan,
where the sand, gravel and boulders fans out as it gets washed down from the mountains above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Across the road was Centennial Falls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve never seen a waterfall with as many
levels as this one had!</div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We saw more animals that day than total since we’d
been in Canada!</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">First there was a
caribou, then a moose I didn't get a picture of. Th</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">en we saw a caribou cow with a couple of mostly grown
calves, just sauntering down the road.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This one’s all legs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Then suddenly we saw Stone sheep crossing the road.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently the three rams lead the way. All those horns are impressive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We saw a group of wood bison along the side of the road,
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1942 a lonesome soldier working on the highway put up a sign with
the distance to his home in Ohio from Watson Lake.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Since then people from all over the world have brought signs to add to the Sign
Post Forest.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Last count (2016) was over
83,000!</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">George brought one with our
names on it to add to the poles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(We also visited the Northern Lights Centre in Watson
Lake.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a planetarium where we saw a
couple of videos, one about solar storms and the other about the Northern Lights).</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Sorry--</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I have no pictures because it's really hard to take them in the dark.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just outside Watson Lake is a little church called Our
Lady of the Yukon Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems to be
abandoned now, but I liked the way it looked with the sun shining on the metal
roof. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">More pictures here: <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsmnbSEjc" target="_blank">Alaska Hwy - Mile 0 to Watson Lake</a></span>Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com0Dawson Creek, BC, Canada55.759627400000007 -120.2376623000000155.688152400000007 -120.39902380000001 55.831102400000006 -120.07630080000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-63954865545227746562018-05-31T07:25:00.000-07:002018-06-11T07:54:51.601-07:005/29/18 - Bears in the Campground<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPT5COObZxq1QUXbEvkaFiG8rn1ydgwj-PeaeHyq9cfqCwngd0ZBfC_eaM0uiZDtBTKOvFXrtCC1-D3aKn6yHEW4viDvZx8yoRJMuALmWksxlFSpOVfBqM6jH2cBpEQ4XwPQ1Rt76r56-Q/s1600/Black+bear+%2526+cub+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1183" data-original-width="1600" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPT5COObZxq1QUXbEvkaFiG8rn1ydgwj-PeaeHyq9cfqCwngd0ZBfC_eaM0uiZDtBTKOvFXrtCC1-D3aKn6yHEW4viDvZx8yoRJMuALmWksxlFSpOVfBqM6jH2cBpEQ4XwPQ1Rt76r56-Q/s320/Black+bear+%2526+cub+%25281%2529.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We arrived at Grande Cache Municipal Campground in Grande
Cache, BC, about 12:30.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a note
on the door that read “Back at 1:00”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
went inside the 5<sup>th</sup> wheel to fix lunch, and George went for a walk
to check out campsites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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George. I watched a big black dog walking around by a motorhome nearby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it kept moving, I realized it wasn’t a
dog, it was a mama bear with a cub following behind!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I grabbed my camera out of the truck and ran back inside
the RV.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They wandered around the yard
right outside the office for awhile.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
cub did documentary baby bear stuff and climbed a tree.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’ve decided that my career as a wildlife photographer
will never get off the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honestly,
when I went out to the truck to get my camera, I was rather nervous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think that’s a very good attribute
for a budding wildlife photographer, although really long camera lenses would
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<br />Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com0Grande Cache Municipal Campground, 10401 Memorial Dr, Grande Cache, AB T0E 0Y0, Canada53.8955879 -119.100024928.373553400000002 -160.4086189 79.4176224 -77.7914309tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-45317812690431455352018-05-28T16:06:00.000-07:002018-06-04T16:27:09.447-07:005/27/18 – Jasper Natl Park<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXdrmKC5xeeVYKbU1HEGa7-kIdiwQPTTUImtyQGYUnsUwjhBW4GRSDqPQreolquQfYcg7zqYhFHkeOKsjePTgRgxQXC_uB3C0rRGR9tLBB5VmUWcLq69V82M9hnSfwZvMHW7-N7HJqJd4x/s1600/Icefield+Parkway+%25284%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXdrmKC5xeeVYKbU1HEGa7-kIdiwQPTTUImtyQGYUnsUwjhBW4GRSDqPQreolquQfYcg7zqYhFHkeOKsjePTgRgxQXC_uB3C0rRGR9tLBB5VmUWcLq69V82M9hnSfwZvMHW7-N7HJqJd4x/s320/Icefield+Parkway+%25284%2529.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The road from Lake Louise to Jasper is called the “Icefields
Parkway”. I</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t goes past a lot of
mountains with their own personal glaciers, some of which probably have their
own names.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Icefields are a bunch of interconnected glaciers. </span><br />
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between snow on a mountain and a glacier (unless you wait until summer to see if it's still there), I was</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">happy to see this turnout had a name:</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Crowfoot Glacier Viewpoint. Apparently at one point there were 3 toes to the glacier; now one is gone so there are just 2. You can see it on the far left.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’m glad we’ve already been to
Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado and were impressed by it.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After these big pointy peaks, I’m not so sure…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The highlight of the Icefield Parkway is the Columbia Icefield and the Athabasca
Glacier, which is one of the toes of the Columbia Icefield. It's the most visited glacier in North America because it's so easily accessible.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> You can actually ride a bus to the base, then go on guided hikes on the glacier, should you be dressed properly and are so inclined. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There’s a big Visitor Center they call the </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Columbia Icefields Discovery Centre</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (no, that’s not a typo, it’s Canadian for “Center”.)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> We walked up all those stairs, checked out the prices on the tours (next trip to Canada we'll do some of this), looked in the gift shop where I discovered I love ammolite, then went back outside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back on the parkway, just past the Discovery Centre and next to the highway is the Glacier Skywalk,sticking out into the canyon.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> There's a Skywalk out over the Grand Canyon--and I'm not interested in that either! I can (barely) stand at the edge of a tall building or canyon and look down. I don't think I could handle it standing on something I could see through. This one isn't even over the glacier.</span><br />
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Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com1Jasper National Park, Jasper, AB T0E 1E0, Canada52.873383 -117.9542938000000227.351348499999997 -159.26288780000002 78.3954175 -76.645699800000017tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-79085488901019731322018-05-25T17:11:00.001-07:002018-06-04T15:27:39.750-07:005/24/18 - North to Alaska!The much-anticipated, once-postponed, long-awaited trip
to Alaska has finally begun!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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border into Canada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shouldn’t seem like
a big deal, but George has worried about it for months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some people we know said it was a breeze;
others said there were long delays because their RV was pulled aside for a
complete inspection inside and out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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We crossed at Eastport, ID. There was a short line when we got
there. Not only was there a short line,
but there was only one … open with just one Canadian Border Patrol guy running
the whole show. (Could have been lunch
time, I suppose, and they left the young one to man the gate.) He was very nice, asked some questions—<i>“Destination?
How long in Canada? Route? Visiting
anyone in Canada? Any guns? How much wine?”</i> (Not sure how he knew we’d have wine…) </div>
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now makes us remove glasses when we get new driver’s licenses—as if anyone ever
sees me without glasses. There was no
pull-over, no inspection, no delay, no problem.
“Enjoy your stay in Canada,” he said and we drove on into a country that
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Canada doesn’t use US measurements—everything is
metric. Speed limit signs are in kilometers. You’d think after all those
years of having both MPH and KPH on our speedometers, some of it would have
sunk it. So much for subliminal
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there are so many of them! You go from
speed limits of 60 km to 70, then on to 80, then back to 50 for some
indeterminate reason, then up to 70, then down again, then up to 100! I must say that 100 takes a bit of getting
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Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com0Eastport, ID 83805, USA48.9993981 -116.1813114999999948.9565051 -116.26199249999999 49.0422911 -116.1006305tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-89225818255915315812018-05-25T15:59:00.000-07:002018-06-04T16:00:25.583-07:005/25/18 – Canadian Rockies<span style="font-family: inherit;">We were in two national parks today, but one was a surprise. We drove
from Cranbrook to Radium Hot Springs, and as soon as we turned onto Hwy 93,
there was an entry booth into </span><b>Kootenay National Park</b>.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I didn’t even realize it was there. So we bought two Annual Senior NP Passes, rather than $16 for
every day we were going to be in a national park in Canada. </span><br />
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the trailer meant we didn’t have a chance to stop and explore, but the views of
the BC Rockies as we drove through the park were impressive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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directly into the Province of Alberta and <b>Banff National Park</b>. I knew (more or less) we were going through
Banff. One of those flat mountains is
called Castle Mountain—don’t know about the others, but they’re certainly
different than any of the others we’d seen on the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On Trans-Canada Highway 1A, heading north to Lake Louise, there are--to quote the Milepost--<i>"Dozens of large animal overpasses that allow large animals to cross the busy highway without gtting hit by vehicles. The overpasses are covered in sod and made to look like natural rock. They are used by 11 species of large mammals." </i>We didn't see a single critter, but it's a pretty cool view going through the overpasses.</span></div>
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until after dinner hoping it would clear out. Parking was available, but the lake was a big
surprise! Yes, it’s a mountain lake in
the Canadian Rockies the end of May, but we didn’t expect that there would
still be ice in it! It's not that turquoise color you see in pictures, but it's still lovely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Flickr Albums: <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsmjdJQbv" target="_blank">Kootenay Natl Park</a></span><br />
<a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsmkXjJUJ" target="_blank">Banff NP and Lake Louise</a></div>
Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com0Lake Louise, Banff Natl Park, AB, Canada51.4253705 -116.1772551999999951.3857625 -116.25793619999999 51.4649785 -116.09657419999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-83271068315862978982017-10-09T10:13:00.000-07:002017-11-15T10:56:53.664-08:0010/3/17 - Kodachrome Basin SP<br />
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Kodachrome Basin was named in 1948 by a National Geographic Society Expedition in honor of the then revolutionary Kodak film that was celebrated for its color accuracy. Now the cameras (and phones) are all digital and a lot of people only know about <i>Kodachrome </i>from the old Paul Simon song.<br />
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In a state with unusual geographical formations, the rocks here are....well....unusual. There are more than 60 upright cylindrical chimneys called "sand pipes", ranging from 6' to 170' in height.<br />
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There are several theories about how these pipes were formed, which basically comes down to "the geologists don't have a clue". I always want to know stuff like this, but "nobody knows" works for me too.<br />
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I couldn't talk George into hiking the 3-mile long Panorama Trail, but he agreed to drive up to the end of the road to see more formations. Eagle's View Trail starts here, but it's closed. <i>(Since it was closed because of erosion in 2010, I should probably have said "still closed". Don't know why it's even listed in the park guide, but perhaps someone is optimistic that they will eventually rebuild the part that fell off or it will fix itself.) </i><br />
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It was easy to talk him into Angel's Palace Trail. Longer than Eagle's View (1.5 miles instead of .5) but not as steep (150' elevation gain instead of 500'), it's ADA accessible. I figured George could handle that, even though we were over a mile high. Sometimes higher elevation makes it hard for him to hike. Parking is next to the campground.<br />
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The trail zig-zags a lot and there are loops. Sometimes it's a bit hard to follow the different colors of trail markers to know which way to go. There's one loop that we didn't take because we thought it was a different trail. Besides the pipes, there are other interesting formations here.<br />
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...as well as some great views of Kodachrome Basin.<br />
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We got to the end of the trail...sort of. Neither of was willing to walk all the way out onto this fin. There's no guard rails and it's nowhere near wide enough for me! I like the view from here, thank you very much.<br />
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After we finished the loop and got back to the truck, we took a little drive through the campground. It's a really nice one, with spacious sites, and about a third have power. George said he'd be willing to stay here sometime, even without full hookups. <i>(Yahoo!!! I'm thinking one year when we go south for the winter, we can go to Moab again, then pick up Hwy. 12 at Torrey. That'll give us the rest of the Scenic Byway and more country we haven't seen yet. I'll plan in advance and make reservations at the campground.)</i><br />
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A few more pictures of <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/2dodges2go/61W50Y"><b>Kodachrome Basin State Park</b></a>Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com0Kodachrome Basin State Park, Cannonville, UT 84718, USA37.5177622 -111.993957911.9957277 -153.3025519 63.0397967 -70.6853639tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-48875050005492246892017-10-07T15:43:00.000-07:002017-11-15T10:56:01.294-08:0010/3/17 - Mossy Cave HikeScenic Byway 12 is Utah's only All-American Road. I didn't think I could talk George into the whole 129 miles to Torrey, but sometimes you do this sort of thing in bits and pieces. Escalante sounded good, but I'd settle for Cannonville if he'd agree to Kodachrome State Park.<br />
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When people ask me what my favorite place has been on this whole journey, I always tell them it's the red rocks in Utah. I don't care if they're sculptured hoodoos, slick, stacked or arched. The rocks high above this trail fit the criteria.<br />
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I kept getting a glimpse of windows in the rocks on the rim. It was sort of a "now-you-see-it,-now-you-don't" peek, but I kept my eyes open and up.</div>
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The trail runs along the Tropic Ditch. In 1892, Mormon farmers diverted water from the East Fork of the Sevier River over the cliffs of Bryce Canyon into the Tropic Valley for irrigation.<br />
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We met another couple along the trail, and continued with them. Nice people caravaning with friends heading to Arizona for the winter. The season begins early for some snowbirds.<br />
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After the trail crosses the ditch, it forks and goes to either the waterfall or the cave.</div>
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We all opted for the waterfall first. This was not a major decision. I didn't think it would really matter since I'd planned to see both anyway. It wouldn't make the short hike much longer. </div>
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Finally got a chance to see the windows I'd seen earlier. I counted 4, George thinks there are 5. Pretty sure one of us right.<br />
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Next up was the cave. I knew it wouldn't be Mammoth or Carlsbad, but unless there's more of it below the viewpoint, I'd hardly qualify it as a cave. <i>(The park calls it a "grotto"--I would have said "overhang".) </i>Glad we went to the falls first.<br />
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When we got back to the truck, we exchanged name cards with Vern and Barbara. Hope to see them in Arizona this year.</div>
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<a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHskwWu7De"><b>More pictures from Mossy Cave Hike</b></a>Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com0Mossy Cave Hike, Bryce Canyon NP, UT37.665842 -112.1103775999999912.143807499999998 -153.4189716 63.1878765 -70.8017836tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-55272118355855408332017-09-30T15:20:00.000-07:002018-04-15T17:42:57.638-07:009/27/17 - Antelope Island State Park<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxI6AumaUOe7bTYVknMmgXMnOkcdhvRb8B1Tvme3hQ_pi-Kj7Kpepvyy2FcTJLW8JUQ2Po8oKtvhF-VwoyuBSa_zUUxTgmSjZ_bTUuhw3I3Y11x9hLfXQ_p1Bc0KXIEXB2c1SzdrF0X9Ur/s1600/Antelope+Island+SP+sign.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxI6AumaUOe7bTYVknMmgXMnOkcdhvRb8B1Tvme3hQ_pi-Kj7Kpepvyy2FcTJLW8JUQ2Po8oKtvhF-VwoyuBSa_zUUxTgmSjZ_bTUuhw3I3Y11x9hLfXQ_p1Bc0KXIEXB2c1SzdrF0X9Ur/s320/Antelope+Island+SP+sign.JPG" width="320" /></a><i>(11<span style="background-color: white;">/10/1</span>7 - Still catching up...this is the last place we went in September.)</i><br />
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We'd been through Utah several times but hadn't gone to the Great Salt Lake since our honeymoon. There's a state park out in the middle of the lake, so we decided to check it out. We drove across the Causeway to <b><i>Antelope Island State Park</i></b>.<br />
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You have to drive across a 7-mile long causeway to get to Antelope Island, which is the largest island in the lake.<br />
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There's a marina on the right just before the end of the causeway but this time of year there was only a single boat tied up to the dock. We drove past it to the Visitor Center, visited, then headed out to look for buffalo. <i>(Okay, <u>bison</u>. I know they're bison. I grew up saying buffalo, so it slips out sometimes. I'll try to do better.)</i><br />
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After Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and Custer State Park in South Dakota, the island has the largest free-roaming <strike>buffalo</strike> bison herds in the US. Some of them even get painted.<br />
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John Charles Fremont mapped the island in 1843, then a few years later named it after dinner. That is, he named the island for the meat they shot for dinner there. There are still about 200 pronghorn on the island--look closely and you can see them. <i>(Antelope are officially pronghorn--just pronghorn, not even pronghorn antelope. I have no idea why Fremont didn't call it Pronghorn Island, but it does sound kind of awkward.)</i><br />
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The Fielding Garr Ranch was established in 1848 when widower Fielding Garr and his 9 children were sent by the LDS Church to maintain the tithing herds of cattle and sheep. The church sold the ranch in 1870 and it was renamed the Island Ranching Company. It continued as a working ranch until it was sold to the state of Utah in 1981. It's pretty much as it would have been in 1973--only rustier.<br />
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We wandered around looking in the buildings, checking out the machinery, trying to figure out what some of it was used for. I knew the silo was for storing grain. George had to tell me the other thing was for stacking hay--the brochure calls it a portable "Jayhawk Stacker". It's similar to the bigger ones we saw in Montana. The giant chair is just for fun.<br />
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The original adobe ranch has has been turned into a museum.<br />
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This was a working sheep ranch, so it's no surprise to find a wagon they call a "Sheep Camp".<br />
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And, of course, if you have sheep, you have to shear them. The corrugated metal Shearing Barn was built in the 1920s. By then the island was one of the largest sheep operations in the western US. It has an engine used to power the shearing stations. I had no idea they would have been so automated, but this mechanized equipment let them shear a sheep in minutes instead of half an hour by hand. If you're shearing 10,000 sheep, that would definitely speed things up!<br />
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They could hold 1,000 head of cattle in the corrals. This is the backside of part of the building. Later they had farrowing pens for pigs, and now old trucks and farm machinery are stored there.</div>
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On the way back, we saw more <strike>buffalo</strike> bison. This big bull was sticking out his tongue, which seems like an odd thing for a <strike>buffalo</strike> bison to do. I'll ponder this some other time.</div>
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<i>11/3/17 - Got a little sidetracked when we got to Arizona and saw friends we hadn't seen since last year. We went here in September.</i><br />
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The <b style="font-style: italic;">World Center for Birds of Prey</b> in Boise, Idaho, is the headquarters for The Peregrine Fund, an international non-profit organization that conserves endangered raptors around the world. We missed the entrance sign, and were going to stop on the way out, but forgot.<br />
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Entrance is in the Gift Shop, then out the back door. There were a few birds in cages next to the building. This Bateleur Eagle is from Africa, where he's "Near Threatened". Don't think I'd even heard of this one before.</div>
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There was a Turkey Vulture right next door to him. We've seen these guys before. They live in both North and South America, so are pretty common. There was a volunteer who was talking about how beneficial they are because they eat carrion, which helps prevent disease. Like many species of wildlife, the use of DDT for insect control in the 50s and 60s killed a lot of them off, but their population status is now considered "Least Concern"<i>.</i> <i>(I'm pretty sure that doesn't just mean someone didn't like these rather ugly birds. The eagle is much prettier, but maybe the vulture's mother found him adorable.) </i></div>
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Just around the corner is the Condor Cliffs Exhibit. The California Condors are the original project of the Center. These condors are the largest bird in North America--and the most endangered one. Even George's wingspan isn't as wide as a condor's. </div>
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In 1982 there were only 22 left in the world, and every single one of them was placed in captive breeding programs. This place has more than any other facility. They breed them here, and release young ones at Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona, just north of the Grand Canyon.</div>
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Again, not a candidate for the Beautiful Raptor Pageant, but just because you're ugly doesn't mean you should have to go extinct. This year they released 18 California Condors to soar high above the Grand Canyon. Their status is now officially "Critically Endangered", which is a whole lot better than "Extinct"!</div>
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If you look closely at the birds above, you'll see numbers on them. <i> (One is 44 and the other is something else.)</i> We asked the guy that did the live bird presentation what the numbers were, but he didn't know. I'm thinking that instead of names, they gave them numbers when they were hatched. There are now 446 condors flying around in the world.<br />
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After checking out the condors, I left George talking to some people and wandered back to the other cages. This Ornate Hawk-Eagle is from forests in Central and South America, and is "Near Threatened".</div>
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The Bald Eagle is the only eagle unique to North America. He's "Least Concern" too.</div>
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We wandered around inside the Velma Morrison Interpretive Center, which has a lot of displays and exhibits about different kinds of raptors. The condor exhibit explained a lot about recovery and had one that obviously didn't make it hanging from the ceiling. </div>
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Neither did the Peregrine Falcon below, although the species was removed from the "Endangered" list in 1999.</div>
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They have Discovery Room for kids. These two were having a ball...never did see them learn to fly, but they did run around a lot flapping their wings.</div>
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Back behind the exhibits is a Viewing Hall where you can see more live birds. I kept forgetting about the double-paned windows between me and them, so I'd get too close and clunk my camera--or my nose--on the glass. The Orange-breasted Falcon is a "Near Threatened" bird from South America. </div>
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The Eurasian Eagle-Owl is a big owl from Europe. His scientific name is fun--he's a <i>Bubo bubo</i>--has something to do with sounds the male makes. I'd call him "Bubba". </div>
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The Northern Aplomado Falcon from the American Southwest and Mexico is the only falcon in the United States on the Endangered Species List. He's a wee-bit scruffy.</div>
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At 2:00 we went to the Live Bird Presentation. One of the docents was doing a show-and-tell on a couple of the birds they have in the program. </div>
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When he was done, he took the whole group across to the other side of the parking lot to the Archives of Falconry & Library building. There they have a lot of things relating to falconry. They have a lot of material for researchers, including the most comprehensive English-language falconry library in the world. There is falcon art and displays with equipment the falconers use, like the leather hoods they put on the birds before they send them to hunt. </div>
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One wing was sponsored by the son of His Royal Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan from the United Arab Emirates, designed to show how Arabian falconry is practiced by nomadic Bedouins today. There's an exhibit of a Bedouin tent, complete with furniture and rugs. Home with all the creature comforts, transported on a camel, it looks like the Arabian version of RVing.</div>
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In this case, it's not the falcons that are endangered--it's their prey. The chief quarry of the Arabian falconers is the Houbara Bustard, which is endangered in some locations, but doing well in others. Sheikh Zayed set up an extensive captive breeding program for them.<br />
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I think the Archives are a great idea, and probably more interesting to falconers. Good plan to save the stuff before it all disappears.<br />
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Back outside, I'd hoped there was going to be a demonstration of one of the raptors in flight, but we were a week early for the Fall Flights. Maybe another time when we're in Boise. </div>
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<i><b>Hells Canyon Oregon Scenic Byway</b></i> is a 200-mile loop in the northeast corner of Oregon, going past America's deepest river gorge, Hells Canyon, and the Wallowa Mountains, nicknamed <i>"Little Switzerland". </i><br />
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We didn't drive the whole loop, just the southern portion from Baker City to Hells Canyon Dam, then came back the same road. That's still almost the same distance without making the circle. It would have taken longer because we'd have to stop and look. One day we'll come from the other direction.<br />
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The smoke from the Eagle Creek Fire near Portland was visible at the RV park, less so as we headed into the mountains. We've been in smoke since mid-July and I'm trying to figure out how far south we'll have to go to get out of it.</div>
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We followed the Powder River, a twisty little stream that hardly seems to fit the name "river". We stopped at the site of the 1984 Hole-in-the-Wall Landslide, where millions of tons of rock slid down, dammed the river and buried a portion of Highway 86.</div>
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North of Halfway <i>(that's a town, not a part of speech)</i> we took the fork to Copperfield, crossing the Snake River into Idaho, then stopped at Hells Canyon Park for lunch. </div>
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Although the road to the dam is a Forest Service road, it's paved, which is the only reason I could talk George into doing it. It winds along the river through the canyon below the dam. <i> (Or is that above the dam? I get confused trying to figure out which way the river runs...north is downstream but that just doesn't seem right.)</i><br />
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The Snake River originates in Yellowstone National Park, winds through southern Idaho, then turns north to form the boundary between Idaho and Oregon, and finally joins the Columbia at Pasco, Washington. The Snake is designated a "Wild and Scenic River", and although the stretch we were driving along is beautiful, it's not wild, and apparently not as scenic as it gets. </div>
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About 67 miles of the Snake River from Hells Canyon Dam downstream are designated Wild and Scenic. The first 30 are "wild" and the next 36 are "scenic". The rest of the river to the Oregon-Washington border is designated "study river". Weird...</div>
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We crossed the dam back into Oregon. View upstream:</div>
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We stopped at the Hells Canyon Creek Visitor Center. I don't think the river builds up to "wild" until it gets around the bend...but if you look closely, there's a tiny bit of white water. Next time I want to plan ahead a little and take a boat trip--the jet boat kind, not the raft kind. We won't be here in the summer, so although I don't mind getting wet, I don't want to get cold <i>and </i>wet! </div>
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Heading back west, the sun and the smoke made contrasts of the hills.</div>
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And I still want to see the Wallowas--they're one of the 7 Wonders of Oregon. </div>
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Jane Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11712905943345431349noreply@blogger.com0Hells Canyon Dam, Council, ID 83612, USA45.2415471 -116.7009780999999945.2192286 -116.74131859999999 45.263865599999995 -116.66063759999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308780943187807766.post-86597834678681749692017-09-24T12:36:00.000-07:002017-11-03T15:09:18.961-07:009/12/17 - Oregon Trail Interpretive Center (Revisted)<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">10/15/17 - We started </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">our winter trip south (again) from Kennewick, WA, and stayed at
Baker City, Oregon (again). First stop after our hiatus, so I had to include it.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I wanted to go back to
the <i style="font-weight: bold;">National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center </i>(again).
George wasn't enthused, but he tends to think that once we've been somewhere we
don't need to go back. I enthuse easily and tend to think we should go
back and see or do different things at a place we’re already familiar with. </span></div>
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We were here 3 years ago, also in September.<i><span style="color: blue;"> </span></i><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><a href="https://2dodges2go.blogspot.com/2014/09/9514-oregon-trail-interpretive-center.html" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">(9/5/14 - Oregon Trail Interpretive Center)</span></i></b></a><span style="color: cyan;"> </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> </span>If you check out the original post, you might find
that the pictures then and the pictures now are very similar. That’s probably a little bit me and a little bit
subject matter. You can skip this if you want...<o:p></o:p></div>
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This year marks the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the Center. It’s a joint project with <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">the Bureau of Land Management </span>and Trail
Tenders, a local group formed in 1989 <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">as a partner with BLM in operating the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. </span></span></div>
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get to the exhibits, you walk between the live-size wagon train diorama. It takes little imagination to see how hot
and tired mother and daughter would have been.
It would have taken the emigrants several months to get to this point on the trail from
Missouri. The ground here is dry and rocky. They
still have to cross the Blue Mountains before the snow starts.<br />
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George and I get tired driving a couple
hundred miles at 60 mph, pulling our 21<sup>st</sup> century covered wagon behind
us. These emigrants <i>walked </i>beside their
wagons. A good day was 10-15 miles. Total distance was about 2,200 miles!<br />
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The oxen plodded on and on and on. Wheels broke off wagons. People died. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Come on, use your imagination. Think about how you would have fared crossing
half the country to make a fresh start.
I know I wouldn’t have done very well. Long, boring, dirty, miserable..<br />
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The Interpretive Center is built at the top of
Flagstaff Hill. The view out the windows
is of the valley where the wagons crossed, with the Blues in the distance. Look closely and you can see trail ruts.<br />
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One thing that we hadn’t seen before was an exhibit called
“Finding Fremont: Pathfinder of the West”.
The focus is on John C. Fremont’s mapping expedition through central
Oregon in 1844-45. The junior high
school I went to was named after him, so at least I knew the name from Nevada
history. </div>
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I really tried to get George to walk down to the trail
ruts. He really didn’t want to. He knew we didn’t have to because we’d driven
down there last time we were here. We compromised
with a walk down to the Stamp Mill.</div>
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Looks like there’s still a mining operation of some
sort on the hill across from us. They
call it “Cliff Mine” on the information map.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Just downhill from the visitors center are the
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We continued down the paved walkway of the Panorama
Point Trail to the “Stamp Mill”. George
knew what that meant, but I didn’t have a clue.
Cool building though.</div>
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There were information signs inside that explained
about gold mining and the stamp mill. George filled in the rest. One of the best things about this trip is the continuing education we’re
getting about all sorts of things we didn’t know we didn’t know. (Well, one of us at least.)</div>
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I wanted to walk out to Panorama Point or the
tracks. We walked a bit longer but not
all the way to either, then got back in the truck to see the ruts again.</div>
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It’s amazing to me that they still show after all
these years. Says a lot about habitat
reclamation—sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
In this particular case, it’s nice that it didn’t.<br />
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More pictures here: <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsm67w3NE" target="_blank">Oregon Trail Center (Revisited)</a> </div>
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