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During our Alaska Cruise we took a ride on the White Pass and Yukon Railroad from Skagway up to the Canadian border and back. This was the most spectacular train ride I've ever been on. The route paralleled the trail taken by miners heading for Dawson in 1898 and in some places the trail was still visible. The GPS appeared to suffer from a case of high-altitude sickness but even so, the...
With a few hours to kill before our scheduled train trip up White Pass, I decided to get out on my own and do a little hiking in the hills surrounding Skagway. After crossing the RR tracks and starting up the trail it didn't take long for it to occur to me that hiking alone in the state with more dangerous animals per capita than any other might not be the wisest...
