- No Travel. Katherine explored Dawson and then we went to the Bonanza Creek Gold site.
Katherine walked around Dawson City and took some pictures of some of the buildings. The newer ones are mostly like this, brightly painted with false fronts and either tin or wood siding on the sides and rear.
This is one of the two grocery stores in town.
There are a lot of really old buildings in town as well, some maintained, some not.
As she arrived at the river walk, she found the SS Keno, an old paddle wheeler now kept up on blocks by the river.
If you want to go on a paddle wheel river tour, there is always this little cutie.
Looking across the Yukon River towards West Dawson. There is a ferry across which runs all day, on demand.
Katherine just liked this sign. It is the local gas station.
This is the Dawson City Museum. It looks very cool but we didn't manage to get inside.
After she came back to the hotel, we went up the Bonanza Creek Road to the site of the original Klondike gold discovery. Here is the famous Dredge #4, one of the largest self-floating gold dredges ever used in Canada. It is just downstream from the original strike.
Yep, that's me. Yep, that's my truck. Yep, I was there.
After checking out the dredge, we went up to the Discovery Claim on Bonanza Creek, the source of all the excitement between 1898 and 1901 here in the Klondike.
You can still pan for gold in Bonanza Creek, and some people still find it now and again.
On the other hand, this is the industrial method of placer mining, where you dig up massive amounts of earth, run it through a sluice, and leave your tailings where they land.
In fact when the claim runs dry, most miners left a lot of equipment just sitting in the bush.
The miners' cabins didn't do so well either.
The rock pile in front is a tailings pile. The landscape in back is scarred from industrial strength gold placer mining. It's still out here.
Fascinating look at the north country.
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