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  • Emerald Lake
  • "Pardon me, boy, is that the Transylvania Choo-choo?"
  • Token Choo-choo portrait
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  • Pipeline in background provides hydroelectric power to the town of Skagway. Obviously not everyone is impressed by that.
  • Cantiliver bridge over gorgeous gorge
  • Red, blue, and white
  • Note the gray, silt-filled water that is characteristic of glacial runoff
  • You'd think they'd never seen a woman in a red coat before.
  • Behold the tourist's wife
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  • Mystereous lake. Native legend held that if you put your hand in the water you would summon demons from the depths of the lake which would devour you.
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  • Lucky for you the demon is on vacation in Hawaii this week.
  • Some modern travelers feel compelled to challenge the legend of the demon.
  • Mandatory Neener, neener, we beat the demon portrait
  • Larger than life and colder than a titches wit.
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  • On, King! On you huskies!
  • Gone to the dogs
  • Dog sled harnesses
  • One of two young women who train the dogs here. She worked like mad to harness the dogs for our ride and was covered in dust that the dogs kick up as they run. These dogs were so excited to go
  • This young woman worked like a dog too. She was covered with dust and so were we when we were done following behind those running dogs.
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  • This was one of our Alaskan highlights. So much fun.
  • This is reportedly the largest bear ever mounted, at least by a taxidermist. 11 ft. 8 inches, nose to tail
  • "Buffalo Mary" queen of the Yukon
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  • Straight out of Dr. Suess, the Saiga antelope
  • It looks like Indy found a friend.
  • Whatchamacallit Island. Here, so the story goes, banished miscreant natives were sent to contemplate their wrongdoing
  • Here's one now. Don't look at her
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  • On the streets of Skagway
  • In this episode, Indy takes on the evil Dr. Iditarod and his fiendishly clever machine, the Giant Nipple of the North.
  • "Pick me, pick me! I'm next!
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  • I'm guessing the top of the face of this glacier is more than 200 feet above the sea. Note the person standing on the deck of the boat, which is itself some distance from the glacier.
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  • A fellow traveler looking for room service
  • Oh, yeah, and dessert.