A few weeks ago my parents flew up to Skagway for a few days to visit. I got to take them on a few adventures and show them some of my favorite places here. Here are some pictures from our drive out to Dyea and our visit to Glacier Point

And some more from our drive up the White Pass to Carcross, Canada and our hike to Lower Lake

A few pictures from todays visit to the Carcross Desert in the Yukon. Its so small we walked from one end to the other in about 20 minutes! We also had a great dinner at a "slow food" restaurant in Tagish. The wildlife count for the day was 3 bears, 1 mountain goat, 1 porcupine and a rabbit.

At the end of our season in Skagway we decided to take the long way home so we could see a bit more of Canada (America's hat). Our travels took us out of the Yukon, down through Alberta and then across Saskatchewan and Manitoba. We dipped back into the US to go under the great lakes, and then drove back up to Niagara falls before heading down to Jennie's family in New Jersey.

The Chilkoot Trail is a 33 mile-long trail that starts in Dyea, AK and ends in Lake Bennett, Canada that was used by the stampeders to get to the gold fields in the Yukon. Hiking the Chilkoot was one of the first big adventures we took together in September 2012, and we decided to hike it again this last September. The first time we hiked the 33 miles in just three days, which didn't leave a lot of time for getting sidetracked (read about it on my old blog here). This year we decided to take enough food for approximately a week so we would have the freedom to stop anywhere we wanted and take time to really enjoy the scenery.

Kayaking from Carcross to Lake Bennett in July 2013