Scenes from the Upper Yukon on 8-9 July 2001

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Sunday July 8 - Day 4: Dawson City 

Board a Holland America deluxe motorcoach and roll along in comfort over the Klondike Highway to Dawson City, site of the most incredible gold rush the world has ever known. If you have the urge tonight, bet a bunch at Diamond Tooth Gerties, it's legal in the Yukon. 


Monday July 9 - Day 5: Dawson City, Yukon River Cruise, Eagle, Tok 

A brief tour will show you the town and the gold fields as you transfer to our own mv Yukon Queen II for a cruise down the "River of Gold." You are "inside" now, cruising through a wilderness where the nearest road is miles away, where the ghosts of miners past still inhabit the sandy shores of the river. See an Athabascan Indian village, an abandoned mining town, and perhaps a moose swimming across the river. Disembark in Eagle and travel over the scenic Taylor Highway to Tok for a night in the dog- mushing capital of Alaska. 
(The Yukon Queen wasn't working that day because the engines had gotten clogged with silt.  Instead, we took a motorcoach over the Top of the World Highway, then Taylor Highway to Tok.)

Sunday 8 July -- Klondike Highway to Dawson				Rest Stop
	Problems with Motorcoach		John Repairs the Motorcoach!	Back on the Road
Klondike Highway
Lunch Stop	Burn Area	Minto	Minto
				Moose Creek
Moose Creek
Klondike Highway	Fireweed			Tailings
Downtown Hotel in Dawson		Other Half of Downtown Hotel	Sourdough Saloon
Dawson
Dawson
Dawson
Monday 9 July -- Plowing the Street	Tour 11	Tour Director Blake & Coach Driver Jeff	New Coach Driver Don	Ferry Crossing
Ferry Crossing				Crossing the River
Ferry Crossing	Back Toward Dawson			On the Road
	Top of the World Highway
Top of the World Highway		Rest Stop
Rest Stop
Rest Stop
Across the Road			Back on the Road
Alpine Meadow (Lunch Stop)
Sweetpea	Sweetpea	Sweetpea	Northern Cotton	Sweetpea
Alpine Meadow
Alpine Meadow		Sweetpea
Alpine Meadow
On Taylor Highway (?)		Gold Mining
Gold Mining				Wooden Gold Dredge
			Chicken
Chicken
Gold Dredge		Taylor Highway
Burnt Paw (In Tok)				Dog Mushing Demo
Dog Mushing Demo

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