The Chilkoot Trail + Whitehorse, Skagway and Dawson City
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- Synonymous with the Klondike Gold Rush, the Chilkoot trail is loaded with history.
8 backpackers hike its 53 km and retrace the footsteps of the ghosts of the Klondike.
In addition, a sightseeing tour of Whitehorse, Skagway and Dawson City.
0:00 - Intro
2:36 - Hike Start
6:32 - Finnegan's Point
8:34 - Canyon City
16:15 - Pleasant Camp
17:43 - Sheep Camp
25:53 - The Scales
27:10 - The Golden Stairs
27:18 - Ascent of Chilkoot Pass
33:25 - Summit Shelter
33:59 - Crater Lake
38:24 - Happy Camp
42:32 - Long Lake
42:59 - Deep Lake
45:50 - Lindeman City
49:52 - Bare Loon Lake
51:15 - Bennett Lake
54:54 - Flying back to Whitehorse
01:01:33 - Whitehorse
01:03:57 - Emerald Lake
01:04:19 - Carcross
01:05:20 - Skagway
01:08:18 - Dawson City
01:10:40 - Sourtoe Cocktail
01:15:15 - Dredge #4
01:16:16 - Gold Panning
01:17:50 - Tombstone Territorial Park - กีฬา
One of my family members was a Porter. He was from the Haida tribe.
My utmost respect.
Nicely done. I felt like I was there. Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
I have studied the Chilkoot and the White Pass extensively. Without a doubt you made one of the best videos I have ever seen about crossing the Chilkoot Trail! Thank You for hard work & effort you have put into this documentary. Excellent Job! Thank You Agan!!!
Glad you liked it.
i was actually looking for a video of someone who climbed it but it's not the same as those days
they climbed ice with 100 pounds on their back several times
I am dumbfounded at the development of digital photography. I was old school film photography and when returned home from RV trips to Alaska film development cost me an average of $700.00. You can imagine how many digital photos I could take now.
Yes, it is amazing what we can do now with a Gopro and a compact camera. Though I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so I feel on my next adventures, I'll be carrying heavier equipment for superior results.
Very rugged,dangerous but beautiful.
To be honest, not that dangerous, but should be done by experienced hikers.
An awesome vidio.them old guys were incredible.
They sure were!
Wow look at all that sunshine! Usually it's cool and rainy by the coast.
Yes, there was a heat wave in Skagway!
Very good.
I like your balance with silent video (excellent shots) and narration with the history being emphasized.
Thanks. I'm no professional movie maker. Just captured what I thought would be interesting and put it together. Glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you so much for this brilliant documentary. You made it so possible for me to see the trail and what it looked like. Using the eye of imagination and your wonderful photography and inclusion of historical photos, it really showed me what trials the Klondikers went through to get to the gold fields. Beautifully done.
Thank you so much for your comment. Really appreciated.
I made the hike with my brothers on the anniversary in 1998. Really is a cool hike. It’s amazing how much stuff is still there. And that when you finally make it through the pass there is a Mountie waiting to chat with you- although they were mostly interested in who else was left on the trail and if there were any problems. We rounded out the trip with a boat picking us up at lake Bennett and taking us to Carcross. Joined up the rest of the family and drove into Dawson and Eagle before heading back to Anchorage.
That`s awesome! I read a book from someone who did the trail in the 1990`s, and she said there were loads of artefacts back then. Do you remember whether there were any air tram pylons still standing?
@@LPB2008 Not that I saw, but loads of other stuff. The people on the trail were really interesting. There was a woman whose greatgrandfather went to the Yukon to set up a bar. She was carrying a symbolic bottle of whisky with her. She hurt her knee on the pass and a couple of young guys made an extra trip back to carry her pack to the top for her.
I watched the entire video again - i see i commented 8 months ago - this time i enjoyed it more. My wife and I will be moving to Whitehorse from Alberta next month to do one year of mission work. I don’t think hiking the pass will be on our to do list. Loved how you blended the topography map with your journey
Happy to hear you enjoyed it a second time. Sadly, I still have to work to put food on the table, so I haven't had time to produce new videos in a little while. I suspect TH-cam is not suggesting my videos anymore because the number of views has fallen down significantly and suddenly. Hoping to find time in 2023 to create new content again.
I was with a group of 26 people who hiked the Chilkoot Pass in July 1980. We stopped for a layover day at Sheep Camp where it was raining. The group leaders decided to take a rest day, so my brother and I and two other guys on the trip climbed the pass. We wrote our names with rocks in the snow at the top to prove we’d been there. On the way back one of the other guys , whose dad was a Yosemite Park Ranger, switched a trail sign so that it pointed up the creek past Sheep Camp. The leaders decided the next day that the other two guys would lead the group while my brother and I came at the end. When we got to the trail sign we said we’re gonna go check out this trail ( the real one) so we walked along the ridge area where the trail looked down on the stream and watched the other 22 people in the group follow our two friends. Eventually they crossed the trail further up where my brother and I were waiting for the soaked group. What took you so long was all we said !! We took the train from Bennett Lake to Whitehorse and then the group rented 13 canoes to travel the 500 miles to Dawson City. We told everyone at the end of the trip about the switched trail sign. I was 19 and my brother was 17. The oldest gentlemen on the trip, at 76, was right behind me all the way up the rocks the day the group climbed the pass !
This is a fantastic story. Of the people who have commented so far, you are the one who has done it the farthest back in time. Did you see a lot of artefacts back then? Did you see air tram pylons still standing?
@@LPB2008 there were a lot of artifacts including old boots and even gloves, even an old pair of leather pants, but I don’t remember anything about the pylons.
There was a Cessna plane crash on the right hand side of the mountain as you got to the base of the pass climb. We walked around the wreckage. I later looked the accident up on a database years later.
@@howmanable Cool!
Excellent Question!@@LPB2008
von der ersten bis zur letzten Minute eine tolle Reportage, die zeigt, was die Goldsucher für Strapazen durchmachen mussten. Ich hätte nie gedacht, dass sie so viele Kilometer zurücklegen mussten, um zum Klondyke zu kommen. Vielen Dank dafür, Gold suchen am Klondyke ist mein heimlicher Traum, aber der Pries ist sehr hoch
Vielen Dank für diesen schönen Kommentar. Sehr geschätzt.
I'm going in 2 months for that very reason. Gold fever is real. I am driving 6000kms from Ottawa and have my full outfit. 🙃
Wow, that's awesome! Saw lots of adventurers in Dawson City. Also looking forward to doing long and adventurous road trips in the future.
Amazing how you’ve combined the history of the pass with the real life pictures of those who have done it in modern time. No matter our age we pictured ourselves with your group -
Awesome! Glad you liked it. Share it with your friends!
Up to now the best video of this historic hiking trail, I have seen. I have never seen so many impressions of the difficulties of the track, but also of the beauties of the landscapes.
Glad you liked it. Wish I had time to do more like this. Nevertheless, share this video with your friends!
How awesome a journey that truly was...and is...Old Sourdough here! 👍😎🇨🇦
Thanks. Glad you liked it. While sourdough is commonly seen in Yukon, particularly in Dawson City, you seem to refer to something more specific. What "Old Sourdough"?
@@LPB2008 Sourdough is a title you earn when you live through a Yukon winter. I managed 2.
My ancestors went there, I wonder if any are in the photos you shared. We are of German decent, and had family that explored the great northwest. I'm not sure when but am sure it was during the Yokan gold rush.
If you have pictures of your ancestors, you may be able to match them to individuals shown in the pictures in this video, but given the quality of the pictures, I would say it will be a stretch.
Awesome video! I did this trail years ago but it rained the entire time. You were lucky! I could see nothing. Still amazing place to be.
Glad you liked it. We only had sun on the first day. The remaining days were overcast, but hardly any rain. It was also relatively cool. We have friends who did it the following year. It was hotter, and buggier!
@@LPB2008 I remember being excited to get to happy camp, then it was freezing cold haha... I would love to go back and do the hike again.
Camped at Lindeman city in very early Spring 1976 after skiing from Bennett …priceless
Totally agree!
This video is so well done! Great shots and narration, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
nice video, now I dont feel the need to do it myself haha. Thanks
What a wonderful film of your time in Alaska.
Thanks.
Simply amazing... thank you.
Glad you liked it.
Very enjoyable video and great music. Looks like a lot of fun.
Glad you liked it!
Nicely done video. Brings back old memories.................Thanks
Thanks!
beautiful music!!
Well, if you enjoyed it, share it with your friends. Thanks!
Your video is the best one that I have seen which captures the experience. I hiked the trial with my son a couple of years ago and the day we went up the golden staircase was both a tiring and great experience.
Thank you for your kind comment. We really enjoyed the hike and thought that making this video would allow others to enjoy it too. Please share it with anyone you think would also enjoy it.
@@LPB2008 lectures @ Goethe houses
Hello Georg. I don't understand your comment. Can you elaborate?
@@LPB2008 why not ???
no snobs !!
Really enjoyed this! Thank you all!
We have my great grandfather’s original diary, gold nuggets (one quite large solid gold (about 2” x 1” x 1/4” thick), the other is gold wrapped around a quartz stone about 1/4”)) in a sheepskin bag, a photo(blue ink, same format as the American Blue Laws were printed) of him in his cabin outside Dawson & copies of his claims & selling out to his partners. He went in through Chilkoot & sailed to Dawson & out through the Yukon to St. Michael. He was a wealthy man from his adventure in 1897.
This is a great story! Thank you for sharing.
I’m guessing you’re talking about Charles Berry? He went on to have more than one fortune made by mining and in the oil business, if I’m correct. What a treat to have that diary!
Enjoyed your video very much, now I never have to hike this..lol just watching your West Coast Trail now. Thankyou. Hello from Campbell River, B,C.
Great! Love BC and the West Coast!
Thanks for this armchair adventure -it was exhilarating ✨😜lol ❗️👋 hey - no one saw any Sasquatch 🧐⁉️. Well I did ✨👽✨but who’s gonna believe me ⁉️ 🛸 👀 😳💭👋
Glad you liked it. Any pictures of the Sasquatch?
Great video! My friend and I did the Chilkoot Trail in June 1974 and only saw 2 other people. I want to do it again.
Good to hear! Were some air tram pylons still standing back then? We heard a lot of artefacts disappeared over the years. Today it is busy enough that there are only so many people a day that are allowed to hike.
I think so. There was so much snow and ice everything was covered up. The lakes were frozen as well. I would not recommend a June hike in the pass itself. The trail was hard to find as well.
@@richardmahlmeister4024 Hi Richard, I know it is hard to chose when is the best time to cross the Chilkoot? In early August the days are already growing shorter daylight wise and there is alot more rainfall and maybe being wet. But all the snow has melted so you can see all the artifacts. It has alot to with what year you go and your luck weather wise? I have had a couple of Park Rangers that are based in the Chilkoot - Whitehorse area tell me over the phone that late July & early August are not the best times to go? As you may spend almost all of your trip wet in the rain and there are several hours every night that are fully dark and therefore you can not the Bears except by flashlight if they happen to be around your tent area? If you look up the sunrise - sunset times in Skagway later in the summer in is amazing how quickly the daylight drops off so fast? But, you may have shorter days and rain but you mostly have the entire Chilkoot Trail all to yourself & able to see all the artifacts! So it is a tough call, espeicially if you are backpacking alone which is what I am thinking about? Thank You again for your wonderful video!
I've read every Pierre Burton book on the subject and been to Skagway twice. Thank you for the effort in making this video and showing me what I'd only imagined.
Glad you liked it. I try to make my travel videos informative and entertaining to allow viewers to prepare for a trip or to live an adventure from the comfort of their home. Cheers!
YESSSS!!!!!!
thank you. would love to do this some time.
God bless
It does take a bit of preparation and planning. But well worth the effort. Wish you get to do it some day.
The book: Frozen in Silver by Ronald T.Bailey covers the life and photography of P. E. Larson (Larss) and his partner J.E.N. Duclos, during the Klondike Gold Rush. They (mostly Larss) took many iconic photos of this time, their studio was in Dawson. Larss did much of the outside work, Duclos did studio portraits. Excellent video Louis Bolduc.I researched the life of Duclos thinking he was in my family line. I have yet to connect him but he was so interesting I continued researching.
Thanks! :-)
super, merci!
Heureux que vous ayez aimé. Sincères salutations.
Love this!
Thanks! Share this video with your friends!
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very nice video. thx from germany.
Thanks. Glad you liked it!
Fantastic video!! Really enjoyed it!!
Great! Share it with all your friends!
Amazing video, thanks for sharing your journey
Thanks. Wish I had more time to do more videos like that one.
Thank you for this great video, it brings back my memories of this great trail.
Glad you liked it. Was a lot of work editing that video, but well worth it!
@@LPB2008 yes, I believe that it was a hell of a lot work, but therefore it is a beautiful video😎👍
Fantastic post!!!!! Thank you so much.
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@@LPB2008 when i make a few, i WILL!
Awesome thx.!!!!
The Truckers picking up hitch hikers.
the stones on the wind shields.
Piggy backing Cabs
İ learned this places from call of the wild book guys.Anybody here like me?
Yes, Jack London is very much a part of the Yukon and gold rush fabric. I have not read his books, but my better half read a couple of them.
@@LPB2008 İ suggest that read the books man.Probbly You would read that books from more realistic perspective as a man who saw that places.Greetings from Turkey to you🇹🇷.
@Teshime Ku İt's nice my friend.
@@LPB2008 Please read "The Call Of The Wild"! Buck the Dog-Wolf discovers his ancestors gentically by being in the forest. His eyes and senses see, hear and he awakens to realize the Wolf-Dog brotherhood he belongs to and comes from! Fantastic Book! I never thought of it as a kids book as it has been labeled. It is one of my favorite books of all time. I have reread it many times again over the years and will do so again, love it!
Thanks for the memories! Six of us hiked the trail in the mid 70's when we were young and fit. There were a lot more artifacts strewn along the trail back then, with only a couple cabins and no outhouses. Bear spray was unobtainable then but being Yukoners that didn't bother us at all. Took us 2 1/2 days but for the next week my legs were so sore I could hardly walk!
Cool! Yes, so sad the artifacts disappeared over the years.
only time I seen canned bacon..when I was there and a loaf of bread... was a dollar if a truck made it.. and that was wow
1974 I hitch hiked
i learnt about this in school, would love to experience it
the way those gold rushers did it can't be matched
carried 100 pounds of resources several times up ice, not rock like here
you should have panned for gold along the way. maybe they wouldn't have had to go so far. gold could have been found along the way
I'm pretty sure the spampeeders had a look at every stream and river between Dyea and Dawson City. Don't know if anyone found anything along the way.
Really cound not work out the pass etc. Absolutely fantastic. What camera did you use and kept in your hand all the time?
I used a GoPro Hero 6 Black, with a FeiyuTech gimbal. I had managed to attach the gimbal handle to a backpack strap, so I had both hands free to climb the Chilkoot pass.
Very nice job of bringing it all together! Where did you get the trail to overlay in Google Earth? I have to do a talk of my own and you had a great idea and approach.
Hello Tom. The trail overlay is the track from my GPS. I imported it into Google Earth. Is your talk about the Chilkoot Trail, or some other location?
I think you can easily find the Chilkoot Trail by searching for Chilkoot Trail GPX or Chilkoot Trail KML on the Internet. You can probably find it on AllTails or GaiaGPS.
Good Luck with your talk!
@@LPB2008 My talk is on the trail which I hiked in 2004. Amazingly, it took 4 days and was sunshine with no clouds the entire time! The border guard said that in 9 years of being stationed there she'd never seen such weather. I am lecturing on an Inside Passage cruise in August and one of my 4 talks is on the Chilkoot (I'm a bear biologist from AK so the other talks are easier!) I'd like to recreate your GE flyovers... nicely done! But the trails I've downloaded are not great (like they track right across the middle of Bare Loon Lake (!) which won't work. It's a royal pain trying to do it but I can...I just was hoping you'd found another source. All trails doesn't even have it (which was surprising) all the way, just to Finnegan's Point, which I found strange. I could swing some sort of 'deal' for your animations perhaps? Again, great job! I'll be recommending everyone watch it.
@Tom Smith. You may use my existing animations if they are going to help you. I could copy/paste them into a contiguous video of animations. If that will work for you, then no problems. But I would not modify them. It does take a fair bit of time and effort to make new animations.
@@LPB2008 Sounds good. Send them along however you see fit. Would save me a ton of time. I hiked the trail in less time than putting this $@#! powerpoint together is taking!
@@tomsmith1454 Ok, I'll put something together for you over the weekend. Cheers!
Hi Louis, I know it is hard to chose when is the best time to cross the Chilkoot? In early August the days are already growing shorter daylight wise and there is alot more rainfall and maybe being wet? But all the snow has melted so you can clearly see all the artifacts. It has alot to with what year you go and your luck weather wise? I have had a couple of Park Rangers that are based in the Chilkoot - Whitehorse area tell me over the phone that late July & early August are not the best times to go? As you may spend almost all of your trip wet in the rain and there are several hours every night that are fully dark and therefore you can not see the Bears except by flashlight if they happen to be around your tent area? If you look up the sunrise - sunset times in Skagway later in the summer in is amazing how quickly the daylight drops off so fast? But, you may have shorter days and rain but you mostly have the entire Chilkoot Trail all to yourself & able to see all the artifacts! So it is a tough call, espeicially if you are backpacking alone which is what I am thinking about? Thank You again for your wonderful video!
Before you get too carried away, be aware that camping is not allowed on the US side of the trail in 2024, apparently due to flood damage in past years. Sounds like the best you could do on the US side is a day hike from Dyea to Canyon City, and back to Dyea. That's going to be a long day!
www.nps.gov/klgo/planyourvisit/permits.htm#:~:text=Note%20for%202024%20season%3A%20Although,prohibited%20for%20the%202024%20season.
You may hike the Canadian side, from Lake Bennett to the Chilkoot Pass, but crossing the Canada/US border is prohibited in 2024. Don't even think about crossing it.
Now, with respect to best time to hike the trail, we were there in early July, and the snow had melted everywhere except from the top of the pass to Happy Camp. On the plus side, we hardly had any mosquitoes. Some friends of mine did it later the following year. All the snow had melted. It was a lot warmer and there were plenty of mosquitoes.
Seems mid-late July would be the best time, but that's based on a single experience. The park rangers probably know better than me.
With respect to bears, we didn't see any (we were plenty loud!), but other hikers saw some. The trick is to not have or consume any food in or around your tent. Use the food lockers and only prepare and eat your food in or around the shelters.
@@LPB2008 Thanks for the in depth information. I did not know the Trail was closed between the two countries in 2024. If I was & illegal I could come into the USA without thinking twice sadly! Yes, later in the summer does seem to be a good time but you can see the rain percentages go up as it gets later in the season. The area that I would love to see is from the Canadian border to Happy Camp. It is really beautiful in that area, wet, cold & open to the sky. It looks like nowhere else on the trail? I watched your film a 2nd time & enjoyed it just as much. Excellent job, again, Thank You!
What camera did you use?
For video, I used a GoPro Hero 6 Black. For still photos, I used an Olympus TG-4. Some still photos were taken by other members of our group with their cameras. The panoramic photos were created by stitching sequences of photos together.
Oh, I also used my Pixel 2 phone a couple of times while we were in Whitehorse.
How did they get heavy steel equipment up along the trail. By the tons. Boiler etc
It's almost beyond comprehension. The steel cable for the air tram must have weighed many tons. How did they pull the cable from Canyon City to over the Chilkoot pass and back to Canyon City?
@@LPB2008 it boggles my mind what they went through.
With horses and by hand
Is there a way to travel on a horse from skagway to Dawson City?
I'm sorry, I do not know the answer to that. It would be a very long ride (700+ kms).
@@LPB2008 imagine what a ride would that be! Once in a lifetime experience!
How did you deal with customs/imagration hiking between canada and USA on trail
There is a phone number for Canada's Border Services Agency that you have to call as soon as possible. You provide you passport number, when and where you entered the country, and they create a record of your entry. They give you a record number back that you have to hang on to for a year, in case your entry is ever questioned.
@@LPB2008 Thanks for the information. It was a well put together video and enjoyed it. I might do this hike next year.
I'd rather climb the Pass in the snow. The boulders are dangerous.
Historically, that's what the stampeders preferred too!
The cost to find food. and DO NOT Steal from a garden . Because you could be killed for Stealing food. WOW TY ,, You could have beer in the car driving. as long as the driver was not drunk . White Horse. Dawson City August 8th.
The Library Books. A place to find comfort. Sign the book. IT SNOWED ! Drinking Age. When you are only was 21. Diamond Tooth Gerties Try and get a job.. When you were only 18
After 32 minutes in , I got tired of the noisy racket you call music. Turned it off. Who needs noise? I can get noise downtown!
Horrible music