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Characters---Yukon (142 Photos)
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Vancouver, British Columbia Margus: Characters---Yukon
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This dude was from Chicken, Alaska. He came to Dawson to 'See the girls dance.' 'Nough said.
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The Snake Pit in the Westminster Hotel has been in operation since 1898. It opens daily at 9:00am, one of the two bars left in the Yukon that open at this time. This Tavern is decorated with original oil paintings and murals depicting local life both past and present in Dawson City. A hand-made birch bark canoe hangs over the bar. The building is original and the materials used in construction are of the gold rush era. Due to permafrost and shifting foundations the floor has a certain lean to it and you are never sure if it is the libation or the building that makes you stagger on the way out the door.
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Vancouver, British Columbia Margus: Characters---Yukon
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Tombstone Mountains, Yukon. 12 kilometers from Dawson City you can take a Larry onto the Dempster Highway, which travels some 700 odd kilometers to Inuvik. Big, remote place. Truly feels like a completely different country. However, when you remember that you are still in Canada, you feel damn proud to be a citizen.
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3:30pm, September 2nd, 2013. Kilometer 71.5, Dempster Highway.
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Sitting atop the permafrost and weathering temperatures that can vary as much as 142 degrees, the Dempster Highway's road surface is entirely gravel, 20 feet thick in places. There was no other way to build the road except load after load after load of gravel.
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The boys take a look at their evening objective, the peak on the left. The hike began at about 5pm.
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We found this zone off the highway and hit it up for a short time. James tried to ride a top to bottom but had to ditch mid way down because the soil went from soft to hard. If we had got video of his ditch it probably would be up there with the craziest mountain bike crashes ever caught on film. But we didn't even get a photo. His bike tomahawked over his head and kept going, at one point easily 20 feet in the air. James was running down a 40 degree slope like the roadrunner, then sliding down on his ass at high speed on razor sharp limestone scree. I have no idea how he was ok, just one small cut on his hand. We were sure that his Knolly was going to be sheared in half, but James pulled it out of it's final resting place, 2 feet under water in a creek, and dusted her off and rode it the rest of the trip. Wow Knolly, keep up the good bike building. Geeezzz............
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Vancouver, British Columbia Margus: Characters---Yukon
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Kenny Smith getting a little Rampage training in. This chute is way scarier than it looks in this photo.
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Riley climbing. The heavy pack made for some unusual angulations and leans, resulting in way more getting off the bike and walking than normal. Oh well, the price of adventure.
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If you want, in Dawson City, you can do a shot of Whiskey with a human toe in it. They call it the 'Sourtoe' shot, a play on words because in the Gold Rush days the really hard core dudes were called 'Sourdoughs,' a nickname most likely bestowed because they carried little bags of bread yeast around their necks. A couple weeks before we showed up in Dawson some guy took the shot and swallowed the entire toe, it made National News. I guess they had a spare toe.
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Jane Koepke. Described by many as the most influencial mountain biker in the Yukon. Her steadfast devotion to her homeland has already yielded huge results.
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What is it about being in the mountains and having a sip of Fireball?
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Uuggahhh. Get me back to the truck.
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Klondike Kates. This is where we stayed. The food here was honestly the best food I've ever had, anywhere. Our last morning was when we got taken to ride the new trail up on the Dome with Marshall, Trae, Charles, and the rest of the local boys. It was inspiring to see their excitement but also an insanely unique experience to ride fresh singletrack on new age fancy bikes but then roll directly into this back to the past, Klondike gold rush town. It reminded me of Bralorne in the Chilcoltins, or Sandon in the Slocan Valley......except not even close to a ghost town! Truly a memorable experience. And the best part is that the Yukon Government has a couple of programs set up to help communities like Dawson fund these sorts of trail building projects. As many of the local MTB youth are Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Citizens they are also getting tremendous support for the First Nations government to keep the program going. The Dawson City region has endless possibilities and Alex Brook and the gang hope by Autumn of next year to have three main trails from summit to town, with lots of short connector trail in between. They hope to incorporate existing trails and tote roads into the trail system. Once they have enough of the trail network in place, and all are adequately signed, they plan to join forces with Whitehorse and Carcross to promote the entire Yukon as a destination for MTB. There are also some amazing trails and tote roads that lead from Dawson, via the Second Dome, up into the Tombstones that will surely make for some great long distance rides, with lots of relics from the Gold Rush along the way.
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Here is a paragraph I found extremely interesting, and almost chilling, by one of Canada's most famous journalists, Pierre Berton: "Here is the most puzzling spectacle of the Klondike Stampede: thousands of gold seekers milling about, squatting on piles of fresh lumber, shuffling up and down Dawson City's Front Street in an aimless parade. For nine months these men have been struggling against terrible odds to reach the goldfields, but now thousands have not even bothered to look for gold. Why? Is it because the early birds have staked the richest ground? Or is it that their real goal was not the treasure beneath the Klondike valleys, but the Klondike itself? These are the survivors, the men who have made it over the passes and down the lakes. For them it seems to have been enough."
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Dawson, with 1,800 people, is the Yukon's second-largest community and sits at the juncture of the Klondike and Yukon rivers. In August 1896, Skookum Jim and some mining buddies found gold just outside Dawson at Bonanza Creek, kicking off the Klondike Stampede. Dawson shot up quick as lightning, adding boardwalks, bar-rooms, bordellos and boarding houses almost overnight.
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Dawson City, on the Yukon River. This is the site of the fabled 'El Dorado,' the city that drew 30,000 thousand men and woman from all over North America into one of the most bizarre and brutal treks imaginable. They were told 'El Dorado' had streets paved with gold and that you could fill a bag with gold chunks the size of your fists within a few minutes. Upon their arrival, months later, they found a much different reality......
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This is the top of the 'Midnight Dome' directly above Dawson City. There have been “informal” bike trails on the Midnight Dome for years. During the Klondike Gold Rush there were literally thousands of stampeders living in tents and shanties on the slopes above Dawson City, so there were trails and tote roads all over the place, which local bike enthusiasts have turned into bike trails. Over the past ten years groups of youth have built some crude ramps and jumps, but most have fallen into disrepair. This year’s approved trail building project was the first “formal” attempt to establish a network of bike trails on the Dome. Most of the youth in Dawson City picked up mountain biking on their own and have been doing it for at least 5 years on average. Up until a couple years ago there was an amazing bike shop in town and the owner Tim Gunter inspired a couple of generations of youth to get into MTB. Quite a few of them have ridden the trails in Whitehorse and Carcross/ Montana Mountain, and of course watched a lot of YouTube videos on biking. This spring the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in (TH) Government’s Community Services Department canvassed the local youth, with the primary focus on youth who might be considered at risk, to see what new activities or services they felt might enhance quality of life and well-being for themselves and others in the community. Most of them, being avid bike enthusiasts felt that the development of high quality bike trails on the Midnight Dome would provide a positive benefit to the community, particularly the youth. Following these initial discussions the TH Community Counselor could see this was something the youth were passionate about, so she challenged the youth to take the initiative and make the project a reality. In early April the youth enlisted the support of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in FN (TH), Yukon Government, and the local trail building club, Klondike Active Transport and Trails Society (KATTS), to help them with their endeavors. The youth were aware of the tremendous success the Tagish/Carcross FN’s (TCFN) had with their “Single Track to Success’ project on Montana Mountain, so they travelled to Whitehorse to meet with representatives from the TCFN and the Whitehorse biking community to learn from their experiences. During this visit they were fortunate to meet with some of the Carcross First Nations youth who had worked on the Montana Mountain trails in Carcross, so they were able to hear firsthand what a positive experience it had been for them and their community.
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It was a super cool experience to ride with the Dawson City boys. They showed us their first true purpose built mountain bike trail. It is their pride and joy and has been in construction all summer. Kenny dubbed it his 'favorite run of the trip,' the trail was super fresh, fast, and most importantly, fun. Thanks Marshall Jonas, Trae Taylor, Charles Dickson-Blanchard, and Francis Bouffard for showing us the goods. Can't wait to come back and ride your hard work again!
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In Whitehorse we rode with a real beauty, Joe Degraff. Joe is a young guy and the leader of the Whitehorse trail crew. He was in one of the first classes of the Mountain Bike Operations program at Capilano College on the Sunshine Coast. He regaled us with tales of Moose hunting trips with his family, of rafting rivers, subzero temperatures, and the life and death tradition of putting meat on the table in the Canadian North.
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Vancouver, British Columbia Margus: Characters---Yukon
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We picked the perfect time to be up in the Yukon. Fall colors were kicking in and the sky always seemed so crystal clear. Sunset colors rivaled even the mighty West Coast of Vancouver Island.
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Vancouver, British Columbia Margus: Characters---Yukon
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Riley. Wet, cold, and still at least 8km from the truck.