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sea level at Skagway. To return to Whitehorse you climb back up 1000 m/ 3,292 ft and over
that same summit again. I just knew I wasn't going to enjoy lunch in Skagway, knowing I
had to navigate that beast of a car back over that snow-covered pass again in the dark.
But she was insistent it would be no problem (for her anyway) so I powered on through and
fortunately when we summited again the snow had backed off. But even with my attention
focused on driving I remembered those gorgeous mountains and resolved to return some
day.
Which is what we did on that warm and sunny July 4 th . This time the snow had retreated
to patches of cotton puff drifting randomly over the barren alpine. At the highest levels the
landscape was naught but gnarly barren rock. Much colder, but not dissimilar in appear-
ance to a rugged west coast shoreline, water puddled in glacial pools.
Before it ever gets near the summit, however, the Klondike Hwy wanders along the beau-
tiful Tutshi and Tagish Lakes to Carcross. We stopped there for a coffee. Later that night,
sitting at a bar in Skagway I was talking to a fellow who said he was from Carcross. Men-
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