Skagway ak hiking trail

. The Alaska Highway still another little twitches. Then no rock blocks the prospect. Framed into cloud-imposed K?engebirge, the Lynn fjord finds sch?s an end here. The eye moves?r t?is gletschereis, summit snow, the low-blue bay and discovers Skagway. Here a singular obstacle run began into the north before one hundred years: 925 bad kilometers from the American Skagway to Dawson town center in Canada. Gold waits at the goal, hoped the many thousand starters. And still the LOCK call of the gold fever route adventurer pulls from all earth angles to the pan handle of Alaska. In the "Skagway Home Hostel" meet some from them. It is the evening before the journey. In heavy mountain boots and thermal things young humans squat before their Rucks?en and?rlegen whether they did not forget anything important. None wants to be able to be marked it. Becomes how heavy mountain-grope?r the Chilkoot Pa? Jack London at that time painted the strains of in its novel "Alaska Kid" in the wildest colors. Verstohlen observes one the three Germans and their immaculate set: Dextroenergen, Schirmm?en, Teleskopwanderst?e, plentifully abgekochtes water. In the K?e gives Nancy, lady of the house and female US Ranger, last tips: "talks with the B?n. places you dead, if it attacks. If that does not help also, bek?ft him with all means. Mental already in lonely wilderness, some wanderer saunter to Broadway, Skagways antique mile. Here unexpected Eindr?e is offered. Between the Western fronts the three dozen of Souvenirl?n 3500 cruise tourists dr?en themselves. From the luxury liners at the jetty most penetrate the city to Fu?in. Others can be animated to the Flightseeing by helicopters. Sport airplanes hunt?r fjord and glacier. Between the Gruppenf?ungen post office-yellow Streetcars and Pferdekut cross. A full-plugged steam railway?zt the White Pa?hinauf, the other ber?te route to the Klondike. Gratefully genius? the single traveler calm instants in the cinema hall of the local history museum. Jim, a tree of a man, is thirsty. It descends again to the Rabbit Creek, which was renamed sp?r in Bonanza Creek. At the brook reason the Dakhl aw? Indian discovers gold. Sp?r the steam ships Excelsior and haven country the H?n of San Francisco and Seattle achieve a scarce year. On board: Gold in the value of more than one and a half million dollar. The message meets the USA of the depression time like a fever. Hundredthousand, under it the B?ermeister of Seattle, meditationless ship passages on Seelenverk?ern st?en themselves in the adventure, book. Their goal: the today's luxury liner jetties of Skagway, where in the meantime j?lich 400,000 tourists land. Fr?am n?sten mornings leave the wanderer facilitate Skagway and reach on the other side of the bay kilometer of zero. Afterwards the adventure begins, finally. Along the Taiya river schl?elt itself the Chilkoot Trail by K?enregenwald. Erlen, Espen, Schierlingstannen and ungez?te ferns f?en air with plant smell. Thunderstorm-well-behaved sunbeams flash by the Gr?der Bl?er and let moorland-industrial union-red Pf?en sparkle. After three hours the way rises. Sixteen the Kilos on the R?en become apparent. There the Schutzh?e comes been because of the former Goldgr?rlager Canyon town center. To the substantial Holzt?klebt a message: "two days ago here a B?gesehen became." We dedicate now more attention to dark-brown H?chen, which is to be found now and then on the way. Who despite all Ratschl? however, take good heed of the instructions of the Rangerin Nancy go. One begins loud Selbstgespr?e and hopes, da?nur animals zuh?n. Or, in the absence of two gold pans, Haust?chl?el h?t itself to the anorak. But the B?n remains invisible. After twenty kilometers march the vacation adventurers concern in the "Sheep Camp". Once here 8000 Desperados in a zeltstadt l?ten and hunted with their shouting the animals. Today f?die wanderer in the igloo tents strict B?n prophylaxis applies: Essensvorr? becomes?r night at a mast gehi?. One cooks in the Schutzh?e. The Australian P?hen, already for seven weeks with tent on the way, g?t itself a Brokkoli Trockengericht. Olaf, Michael and Andreas from Germany feast Kartoffelgratin. After the meal a drahtige US F?terin calls for historical lesson into the H?e. The Chilkoot Trail, erkl? it thirteen trekkern, was for many centuries commercial route of the Chilkoot Indians. They brought to goods f?andere Indianerst?e of the K?e in the interior. The Goldgr?r, which broke in in the winter 1897/98 to thousands in the country, er?neten own Handelsst?punkte and extracted from the Chilkoots so its base of life. On the n?sten morning are more fr?munter all. Rock and snow the k?igen close summit on. Before the last rise, which is "golden stages", rusty shovels, gold pans, bones?r the stony underground scattered. 28,000 M?er with a ton of Ausr?ung and food supply qu?en themselves in the winter 1897/98?r the summit. Up to drei?gmal they mu?en the heavy course repeat. On all four the tourist in the summer 96 kraxelt against the sky. Although rain is announced, the sun radiates and lights up the mountain panorama. Without Pa?ontrolle one slips in the snow from the USA to Canada. It goes quietly and kontemplativ?r soft snow fields to the night camp "Happy Camp". The third day f?t by fields of ripe preiselbeeren, along icy Fl?en and mountain lakes. B?e and V?l turn to?, as the way in the valley lowers itself. Soon the Lake lime tree man is reached. In the tent at mintgr?n the lake erh? each wanderer a document, which congratulates to him to?erquerung the Chilkoot passport. Many flat steel bars? went here to break, and not few Goldsucher drowned for a long time before their goal. Whitehorse, kilometer of 202.6, at the end of the Flu?ahrt: The capital of the Yukon territory looks like gro?r a suburb. Autoh?ler, Superm?te, Verwaltungsgeb?e. Two of three humans in the country live city in the n?ternen, 23,500 inhabitants z?enden. Today nature-looking for holiday-makers are the gold pit of the Yukon territory. The tourism is with 4000 Besch?igten of gr?er employers. 300,000 visitors, above all American, Kanadier and German, spend each year their vacation between Alaska and the northwest territories. Unber?te nature and nat?ich gold fever with a whole number of hundertj?iger Jubil? are located in the center of the national tourist advertisement. The Chilkoot chilkoot-Wanderer follow from Whitehorse with kanus of the Goldgr?r route. The boats slide onto the brown conveyor of the Yukon. Two kilometers behind the last house again the wilderness does not prevail. Raben kr?zen on the banks, on a spruce kauert first of many Wei?opfadlern, which we should still see. Beaver platschen in a sand-bright M?der, many Flu?chlingen continues to penetrate Wolfsgeheul from the Uferw?chen. Soon thereafter ergie? itself the Yukon in the Lake Laberge. F?zig kilometer paddles are demanded. In the evening after the Oberk?ertraining the head is free, and we genie?n the colors of the arctic midnight sun. The roasted Seeforelle at the campfire tastes also without Dill and Rosmarin. Kilometer of 296,4: At the end of a lake, again to the Flu?verj?t, the Yukon winds itself on the n?sten morning in quick slalom?r stony reason. On the banks old Indianerd?er, the wreck of an impeller steamer and abandoned Handelsst?punkte - witnesses of the past. The travelers creep into their Schlafs?e and let themselves the n?sten eighteen hours on that again to Fu?allfeldbreite Yukon increased be floated. Slow motion-slowly burned Friedhofsw?er pulls past. Bird calls and Elchgebr? - cathedral clean at day-bright night. Around f? Clock in the morning, into safe twenty meters distance, we discover finally the long-longed Grizzly. To the blue Eisenbahnbr?e in Carmacks one rises after six days and 350 kilometers of Flu?ahrt on wackligen legs to the bank. By hitchhikers we drive the last kilometers to the Klondike Highway on the candle-straight main artery of the Yukon territory, until Dawson. Kilometer of 924, Dawson town center: It gives a few places in the world, to whose name of everyone already once go? has. Dawson town center is one of it. Dawson town center is with its 2000 inhabitants no more spirit city, which it was long time after gold fever. The tourism aroused Dawson to the life. Visitors go whipping?r Lehmstra?n or on h?ernen boardwalks around block. Colored pencil colors and corrugated sheet-silver are the H?er. Western Geb?e stand jacked up, for that ground scarcely relieved. A Pianistin works on the keys in the pl?higen Saloon of the "Downtown hotel". Once thousands of Goldgr?r on the bank of the city camped. Today many hundred students in the W?ern kampieren on the other Flu?eite. On the day they work in general gates, in the "Jack London grill", in the Klondike Nugget Shop. Up to fr?n the morning they sing Karaoke songs or klampfen with their guitars in the bars. Sometimes a genuine Goldgr?r mixes under it and pays with yellow dust. There are it still, the Goldgr?r of Dawson. But one mu?sehr fr?aufstehen, in order to meet it. In the morning around seven in the "Klondike Kate" is a good time. One sits with ungez?ltem beard, Baseballm?e before the "Special" f?3.99 dollar: Bacon, eggs, roasting potatoes, toast, Ketchup. The first holiday-makers scheuchen it up. One follows its trace the few kilometers up curiously to the Klondike. The sight of nature frightens. In the past hundred years the bright, stony soil was turned several times by the wolf. Sch?ge campers park in by verses the landscape. No 300 meters removes, gr? Roger Kay on its Claim after gold. The man out of Ontario go? to the more successful Goldsuchern of the region, their number it sch?t roughly on some hundreds. W?entlich w?ht Kay with gigantic machines 100 ounces gold in the value of 50,000 dollar from the soil. The tourists however look few kilometers of far at the everyone Claim of the Bonanza Creeks usually into empty pans. The Midnight of cathedrals, Dawsons house mountain, is a good place, in order to say to the Yukon living well-being. When the first participants gro?n of the gold run 1897/98 from Skagway arrived here, the best Claims was already assigned. In the summer 1899 many Goldsucher had further-pulled already again home zur?gekehrt - or. From Nome in Alaska a call had penetrated after Dawson: Gold. Journey: Air Canada, t?ich Frankfurt Vancouver Whitehorse, up to 31. Gold Rush Home Page: . Information: Canada tourism program, p.o. box 20 02 47, 63469 Main valley, fax 06181/49 75 58. Yukon Tourism c/o long tourism service, p.o. box 20 02 47, 63469 Main valley 2. Tourism Yukon, box 27 03, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Y1A 2C6, Tel. Chilkoot Trail: Park Canada, Yukon national Historic Sites, Room 205, 300 Main Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2B5, Tel. attack on the widths of Canada