Chilkoot Trail

Day 5 Linderman City to Bennett

Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:05:18 -0800

It is, or it seems like it, lts of uphill to Bennett. The trail from Linderman City to Bennett Lake is four to five hours of hiking. We left at 6 am and arrived at 11 am. The trail climbs up right ou

Day 4 Happy Camp to Linderman City

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 09:42:50 -0800

We didn’t hurry this morning and we were just about the last to leave camp at 11:30 AM. The rain had let up by the time we got going and we had a very enjoyable hike. We were able to take time to lo

Day 3 Sheep Camp Over the Pass to Happy Camp

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:59:00 -0800

We got up at 4:30 AM but didn’t make it on the trail till 6:18 AM. The trail goes up hill slowly the first 1/2 mile to Sheep Camp over flow camp. Just passed the cabin we had a fox cross our path.

Day 2 Canyon City to Sheep Camp

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:41:35 -0800

The trail start off on a rocky trail. In no time the trail starts to climb through wonderful lush forest. There weren’t any bears of big animals that we saw, but lots of little critters running back

Day 1 Dyea to Canyon City

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:19:35 -0800

We hit the trail finally at 9:30 am. It was so good to get going. The trail starts going up hill over a pretty rocky trail for the first mile. It didn’t take long for Dianne to zip off the pant legs