Returning to Skagway, Alaska 2022/Carlos Pueblo
After the Glacier Bay, the ship sailed at night to reach to Skagway, Alaska early in the morning. This is also a small gold rush town near the Yukon Territory, Canada. There is a business for tourists to take a shuttle bus to Canada and back in a few hours. Usually, I would take three marches in a day, climb the lower Dewey lake, visit the downtown, and across a bridge over the Skagway River to the Smugglers point on the other side of a helicopter port. We met a pair of new friends on board and I volunteered to be their guide and I skipped the Dewey Lake.
They are Filipinas who live in San Diego, California. One of them is a nurse who is not good at the mountain road. We found the airport office and the bridge to across the river. It is a rapid current river with melting snow water from the mountain top and flow to a bay. A cemetery is on the right side and we made a pass. We turned to left to enter an area used to host smugglers. It is now a hill park for tourists. Several nice view points on the way surrounding the area. I was told there were golden eagles in the area when we first visited here in 2012. People kept on telling us the smugglers point was near yet we missed it. We came back on the same route instead of a short cut through an emergency road for vehicles. By that way, we had to slide down several times and I was afraid of not good for her.
We came back to the downtown and it was still crowded with tourists. I believed that there were three ships disembark her that day. Ladies were shopping at shops and I was sitting and enjoying watching people walking around. I remembered so mush on my past visits. I love the town.
You can take a train to a mountain top to visit an old gold mine. Helicopters are for tourists with interest to step on a glacier. You can do it with an excursion arrangement. Some retired people with good driving experience from lower states come here for summer jobs to drive tourists to Canada for visiting.
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