On Tuesday we boarded a bus in Whitehorse, YT and went to Fraser, right on the Alaskan border. From there we took a White Pass & Yukon train down to Skagway. We boarded the train and rode about 27 miles up over White pass and down into Skagway, Alaska. The White Pass is a narrow gage (3 feet), it was built this way to allow tighter radius turns on the steep mountain tracks: it was also much less expensive. Built during the Klondike gold rush of 1897 to helped get miners and supplies to the Dawson City gold fields. Because of the high rocky terrain 450 tons of dynamite was used in the construction. Going through Customs was unique, it consisted of a customs agent walking slowly through the car while we all flashed our passports at her. The ride down was fantastic with, snow, tunnels, trestles and sheer drops to the valley below. Chuck, Ken( a former Port Authority director in NYC) and I spent most of the ride on the outside platform between cars, where the ride was scenic and cold….we learned very quickly not to lean out in tunnels ( where are the rocks?).After about 2 and one half  action packed hours we arrived in Skagway. On the way back (bus) we stopped in a small Native People’s town called Carcross….its old name was caribou crossing because it is on a major caribou migration route.