Alaska Cruise
July 2014
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to Juneau | to Glacier Bay |
Skagway
Thursday, July 17
Weather: Cloudy, Hi 60
7:00 AM | Arrive in Skagway |
8:30 AM-12:00 PM | White Pass Rail & Klondike Hwy (3.5 hr) – Kim/Sarah |
8:45 AM-4:30 PM | Denver Valley Hike & White Pass Rail (7.75 hr) – Me |
12PM-1PM | Lunch at Jewell Gardens – Kim/Sarah |
1PM-4:30PM | Jewell Gardens – Kim/Sarah |
4:30 PM | explore Skagway (finally got usable wifi at Skagway's library!) |
9:00 PM | Depart Skagway (8:30 dinner in main dining room) |
Fitbit stats:
To bed: 10:43 pm, Got up: 6:40 am (7:46 asleep)
Steps: 22,091 (10.36 miles)
Floors: 106
Kim & Sarah wanted to visit the Jewell Gardens, so they went on the shorter White Pass Rail excursion while I went on the excursion that included a hike through the rainforest to the Denver Glacier.
![]() Skagway port |
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![]() 'caboose' view |
![]() footpath / horse trail |
![]() old bridge |
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![]() Denver Valley |
![]() Skagway port |
![]() Denver stop |
Denver Valley hike up toward Denver Glacier, through temperate rainforest. This is the same type of environment as that of New Zealand, and it felt at times like walking through Middle Earth and/or the forest moon of Endor. I could easily imagine hobbits or elves (or ewoks) amongst the trees.
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![]() old tree |
![]() base of tree |
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![]() nursery tree |
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![]() iridescent lichen |
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![]() lunch spot |
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![]() fallen log |
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By the time we got back to town, a cold front had blown through. It didn't rain but the temperature dropped and the wind picked up. I stopped off at the ship to drop off the stuff I took on the hike, then walked into town to the public library where I was *finally* able to connect my phone to wifi. I spent an hour or two dumping as many photos as I could into a facebook album, then met up with the cousins and returned to the ship for dinner.
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