Skagway today, and yet another early morning. We’d booked the 7.5 hour Yukon by train and bus tour through Chilkoot Charters, and had to meet at around 7:15 to get a ride to the train. Met up with Mike, who was to be our tour guide for the bus portion, but for now he was just dropping us off for the train. The train was pretty scenic, although we did find that since it’s a narrow guage train, the cars were a little narrower, which made the seats a little narrower. Train ride was a couple hours long, leaving a dark and grey Skagway morning, but when we cleared the pass, ended up in bright sunny weather. Got off the train in Fraser, BC, then continued by bus up into the Yukon territory. Had lunch at a place called Caribou Crossing, which is probably starting to turn into something of a tourist trap, although the lunch was pretty decent. Cathy also got a chance to see the husky puppies there, although this time of year, the puppies are starting to get a bit bigger. You could do a sled dog ride here (using a cart), but we didn’t, just watched them. Was pretty impressive to see them pull a large cart with several people on it.
From there we visited Carcross, and then headed down the Klondike Highway back to Skagway (where it was still fairly grey and cloudy). Spent some time wandering around town and visiting stores. Checked out the cliff face near where we’d docked, where ships would traditionally paint their name and the name of their captain when they first visit Skagway.