My Trip To Dawson City, Yukon, My Run In With Miners & Gold

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I had tonnes of pictures and even had a video of our drive home (had a car at this time so no bus). Driving through the alaskan highway you see so many animals. Mountain sheep, bears we saw tonnes of buffalo too. YOu have to stop and wait for the herds to cross the road. I even had some footage of some really bad drivers!

Sadly all of it got thrown out by accident when I moved. I dont know who did it or how but its been gone ever since I moved. It still sucks to this day. I did have a couple vials of gold falkes too that went missing.

I had great pictures of mountains, the buildings of dawson city etc etc. I wish I still had them so I could share them with you all. You would find them absolutely fascinating. I even had pictures of the cabin and shaft we worked at

Sorry to hear about the loss of your pics, Crystal. These things can be really precious to us. They are the recordings of the story of our lives.

Yeah, there's just something about moving that is death to photos. When my folks moved back to the USA from Germany in 1955, they lost almost all of the family pics that had been taken over there. Practically all of them were irreplaceable. I mean, your kids are only 4 years old once, right? Fortunately, Dad was really into taking slide photos back then and all of the slides survived the trip, so we at least have them. I was able to digitize these with my scanner and put the resulting pics onto CDs for our family members. That was good, since 50+ year old slides do eventually decompose and these were starting to go that way.

I have to admit that I am very strongly attracted to Alaska as well. I haven't been there but have seen a number of fishing, hunting, and travel videos that really perked my interest. Alaskan winters can be pretty bad, though, so if I get up there it will likely be in a 5th wheel trailer for some extended camping and fishing trips. That way, when the weather starts to cool off, I can head home for a bit and then go on down to AZ for some fall / winter sun.

Awesome story and an amazing experience. It sounds like what a town would look like a hundred years ago.

Sorry to hear about the loss of photos. Now you have to go back one more time for a short trip and summer is just around the corner, to get some photos.

And I had to look up Tim Horton. I thought it was a person at first, but that didn't make sense. Never heard of that chain.

I have been busy but I searched out my thread to read responses I never did. I want to say, ever since I left Dawson City, I have missed it so much. It keeps pulling on the strings of my heart to come back.

I now have 3 boys and a family so it would be near impossible. I wish I could put my house up for sale and move there. Visiting for a couple weeks would be pretty cool but an entire summer would be better...or even a life time. I really wish I could win the lottery so we could do as we please...lol. One day I will go back there and I really hope its when I'm still young enough to have some more fun mining and hiking.

Ahhh I just remember walking to the trail where our cabin was and seeing the ATVs being pulled by the alaskan dogs for their training

I will most likely update with more stories in the near future, I think it will help me with how much I miss it.

I dont know if I already said this in the thread but when I watched gold rush alaska and saw Mr. Hoffman on the phone in Dawson City, it made me so happy. I used that very phone at least once a week to call home and say hi to family.

I miss it so much.

Well done in your travels! As an avid hitchhiker, I have had many of what I call 'authentic experiences'. When someone introduces you to their way of life in a far away land it can be very meaningful.

You know, I'm 30 years and that number makes me feel old when I look at it. I miss being 20. BUT I feel no different from when I was 25 and I will always be young at heart.

One day when my friend and I were crossing the Yukon river on the Dawson City Ferry, we looked down the shore a far ways away and saw an old ship washed up on the beach. We asked the locals about it and if it was anyones property. The story is it's a haunted boat washed up on shore. Well of course I dont believe in such silly things so we went for a hike! We reached the ship and went inside and it was littered with empty beer bottles and garbage. We spent an hour or so cleaning it all up. When we were finished I swear the old wreckage let out a sigh. (Sure sure it was probably just the wind making the old thing creek but I like to believe it felt relieved to finally be clean!)