We
slept in until 9. I made the coffee and
we hung out at the coach while we drank the coffee.
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| Welcome to Dawson City |
In the late morning we drove to downtown Dawson City. We needed to make up for missing the walking
tour yesterday. First we drove down the
main street, Front Street, along the river.
We turned around at the entrance to the ferry that continues YT-9 across
the Yukon River. We checked out Second
Avenue, another street with a lot of businesses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_City
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| Typical street |
There were also businesses along most of the
side streets. There were several hotels,
motels, B&Bs and cabins for rent.
The canoe/kayak races that we saw start in Whitehorse was finishing at a
park along the river. There also was a
Farmer’s Market and Art Fair going on.
There was a lot of pedestrian and vehicle traffic.
There
were several caches in and around the main historical district.
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| Fixer uppers |
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| Sod rood cabin |
We stopped at one and were looking when we
met a family from Australia who were also geocaching. One of the young men found the cache under the
boardwalk.
We
drove around the town for awhile looking at both active and dilapidated
buildings that were built during the gold rush and at the first part of the 20th
century. It was interesting that many
homes and businesses used artifacts from days gone by for yard decorations and
planters.
We
drove to Dawson Dome. The Dome is a
prominent hill that overlooks the valley formed by the confluence of the Yukon
and Klondike Rivers.
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| A view from Dawson Dome, http://dawsoncity.ca/attraction/midnight-dome/ |
I found a cache near
the summit of the road circling the Dome.
We went back to town and found two caches at historic buildings.
We
choose to have a late lunch at Sourdough Joe’s.
This restaurant is a continuation of one ran by an enterprising
restaurateur during the gold rush. In
two years his income from the restaurant allowed him to return to New York a
rich man and marry his sweetheart.
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| Gerri's salmon BLT |
What
a lunch! Gerri had a Salmon BLT and I
had a super burger. We finished the huge
meal, except for a few French Fries.
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| Police section of Hillside Cemetery |
I
dropped Gerri off at about 4:45 and went out to find a few more geocaches. The first one was off the road to the Dome but
much lower. The cache was a short walk
to the edge of a bluff overlooking part of the town. The walk started at a cemetery founded in
1898 and still operating. The area was
well maintained. It had several graves
of historic importance. I was especially
attracted to a very well maintained section purporting to be the graves of
members of the Mounties and other Constabulary.
According to the ages listed on the markers 41 was an old age to
die. https://plus.google.com/116858849678493194902/about?hl=en&review=1
The next cache was a short distance
away but a 1/4 mile off the road. The
path was paved. I got within 400’ and
the batteries in my GPS went dead. I
debated returning to the Jeep for new ones.
I decided to go on and try my luck.
There was an observation platform at the end of the trail. I poked around under it with my walking
stick. No luck. I looked around for a place to hide a
cache. I remembered the hint on the
cache and headed for a nearby spruce tree.
Within a few steps I saw the telltale UPS. I signed the cache log and picked up a travel
bug.
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| Planters made from old mining equipment |
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| I would guess that years ago this was more important in the house |
It
turns out the road I took to get there was the long way. I could have come right up from town.
I
returned to the coach and hooked up the Jeep and filled the fresh water tank in
preparation of a dry camp at Chicken.
Anticipating
an early start in the morning we went to bed by 10:30.
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