08/01/22 – 08/03/22

We are off to Whitehorse, YT today. The travel will be 266 miles. A tour bus took us on a tour of Whitehorse and a fish ladder. Then we met up to tour the SS Klondike.

So the tour of the town was Zzzzzzzzz! The fish ladder was only interesting because it’s the longest wooden fish ladder in the world. And I am always interested in how mankind tries to fix what they messed up. The first salmon of the season arrived just before we got there so there was lots of excitement among the staff. Especially because it was a wild salmon instead of hatchery raised. They can tell that it was wild because the ones from the hatchery have one of their fins notched. They look very plain jane when arriving at the fish ladder.

The same evening we went out to a Mexican restaurant and had a great time

The next day we went for a tour of MukTuk Sled Dog Kennels. Can’t go for a ride this time of year because it’s too hot for the dogs. He had 110 dogs in his yard. Although they are well tended to I was sadden to see them all on short chains. I had no idea that most of them are mixed breeds. He also had several rescue dogs. The owner said the dogs get a lot of attention from tour groups. They are put in exercise pens twice a day and also get brushed every other day. His presentation on the sport of dog sledding was interesting. As he said several times if you don’t take care of your dogs you won’t be racing. I was surprised how often before, during and after a race the dogs had to be checked by a vet. We were then served a very nice lunch.