This past week has found me exploring the colorful frontier town of Dawson City, famous for the Klondike Goldrush of 1898. It isn't my first time in town but I still found ways to keep my mind busy and active while staying here. The 100 year old buildings reflect a different time and place when things were built with calloused hands, old growth wood, steam and iron. The gold once mined from the hills here provided enormous wealth for some but most miners were left poor or in debt once the decline hit and mining went commercial and industrial.
view from Sunnydale Rd
boat on the Yukon River
Today it is the tourism during warm summer months that mines the gold. Active claims still continue but downtown is a parade of tour buses, RVs and motorcyclists. Fortunately there are many sights and things to do during these long sunny days.
master of the mutton
Dredge #4 is the largest wooden dredge in North America. Large as a football field and weighing 30'000 tons, the dredge was assembled multiple times on Hunker Crk and later Bonanza Crk leaving enormous tailing piless of overburden in concentric crescent hills.
view from the Dome
river of green
artistic graffiti
these ships often drafted two feet or less
The steamboat graveyard on the east bank of the Yukon is home to four deteriorating wooden steam ships. The splintered and rusting remains are accessible and mostly intact. It is a marvel nobody has accidentally set them ablaze. Once hauled out for the winter of ice, they remain silenced in their terrestrial graves.
Steamwheeler Graveyard
mind your step
all is ship shape
Howdy to all those ADV FF's in Dawson at D2D!
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