Skagway, Alaska 2025

We are on an Alaska cruise for a week.

Skagway, Alaska, home to about 1,200 folks, is defined by the Klondike Goldrush in the late 1890s.

Today the city is booming again thanks to about 8,000 cruise passengers every single day in the summer. The city is cute as can be.

Getting out of town is where it is at though. We took a bus tour all the way up into Canada past White Pass Summit where many of the 100,000 Klondike hopefuls went into Canada.

Canada insisted they had a year’s worth of supplies to cross the border (2,000 pounds), which meant thy needed many trips back and forth in the very subzero weather to gather their belonging.

By the time most arrived in 1898 it was too late for almost all the hopeful miners.

We stopped at Yukon Suspension Bridge for a fun walk.

My sister, Frankie, who will be 89 next week joined us on the tour.

The hockey stick looking things are guides for the winter snowplows to know where the road is since typically there is eight feet of snow here even though it is only halfway up the mountains. The wind whistling through here is makes it even colder than the -60-winter temperature.

After reaching the top, we boarded the White Pass and Yukon Train for a beautiful ride back to Skagway.