Skagway is at the northern tip of the Inside Passage. It has a permanent population of around 800 which drops to about 400 in winter as everyone shuts up shop and leaves. The general store, post office, petrol station and school stay open. At the height of summer the population rises to around 3000 and they face the same accommodation problems as Queenstown when the tourism workers arrive. The town is only there because of the gold rush. At that time it was a thriving town. The Main Street has been kept as near to what it was like back then.
The main St as it is today
After lunch we headed out to the huskies. It was about a half hour drive in a bus then when we got to the difficult part of the road up the mountain we transferred to a unimog. It was a road a bit like Treble Cone. Narrow and badly rutted. Radio contact with other unimog meant that a driver would wait for a vehicle travelling in the opposite direction before proceeding. There was no possibility of 2 passing on the road.
Our Unimog
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