Dawson City, YUKON.

 

A small town with a big history. The discovery of rich gold deposits in Rabbit Creek (now Bonanza Creek) in 1896 led to the Klondike Gold Rush. Some estimates put as many as 100000 stampeders heading for the North in the years immediately following the Bonanza Creek discovery. At the end of the nineteenth century, Dawson City became the largest settlement west of Winnepeg, with a population over 30000. By 1902, they were fewer than 5000 residents left.

You can still pan for gold in the creeks and rivers around Dawson and hardcore golddiggers still claim stakes today digging for gold all summer. You can't pass through this town without visiting the unique casino that combines gambling with live, cabaret-style entertainment...Meet Lady Luck at Diamond Tooth Gerties.

And have you ever heard of the "Sourtoe Cocktail". It's about alcohol, an old legend, crazy people and a real human toe! And this guy is about to join the long list of true Sourtoers, disgusting...

Established in 1973, the Sourtoe Cocktail has become a Dawson City tradition. The original rules were that the toe must be placed in a beer glass full of champagne, and that the toe must touch the drinker's lips during the consumtion of the alcohol before he or she can claim to be a true Sourtoer. The rules have changed in the past twenty-seven years. The Sourtoe can be had with any drink now (even ones that aren't alcoholic), but one rule remains the same. The drinker's lips must touch the toe. " You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow-- But the lips have gotta touch the toe."

The Dempster Highway.

734 kilometers of gravel, shale and clay, starting 40 kilometers outside of Dawson, passing over the Artic Circle and ending in Inuvik (Northwest Territories). We weren't planning on doing it, but when you're that close...you want to do it! The first part was amazing, the second part was aweful, we made it to the Artic Circle but we hate the Dempster Hwy...probably because of the bad weather conditions, the bad and muddy road and the expensive 'Eagle Plains' gas station.

An interesting detail about our stay up north: 24 hours of daylight minus a few minutes when the sun switches from dusk to dawn and even then, it barely gets dark, mindf*cking business!



 
 
 
 
 

 

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