River, beer and vaudeville

Not the best weather today - definitely a need for a sweatshirt and long pants today - but I wouldn't let that stop me from walking the Millenium Trail in Whitehorse, a 5 kms trail along both the east and west banks of the Yukon River.

How could I not enjoy walking along a trail that went through fields that looked like this?

Schwatka Lake is a reservoir created by the damming of the Yukon River which was completed in 1958.  The dam provides electrical power generation.  

A fish ladder has been constructed around the hydroelectric dam to allow the passage of Chinook salmon to their spawning grounds upstream of Whitehorse.  The Chinook salmon that pass the dam have the longest freshwater migration route of any salmon, over 3,000 kilometres to the mouth of the Yukon River in the Bering Sea.

A tour of Yukon Brewing seemed like a good thing to do on a cool, rainy, afternoon.  Yukon Brewing bottles 8 different beers, including three dark varieties that are really good!!  Unfortunately none of their beers are available anywhere in Ontario.

Tonight's entertainment was the "Frantic Follies".  The "Frantic Follies" is a turn-of-the-century vaudeville revue that depicts the entertainment seen by the pioneers of the Great Klondike Gold Rush of 1898.  The company has been in operation for 45 years and is known as the most popular and successful show in the Yukon.  Definitely a fun evening!

Life in the Klondike 

Some expert saw playing

"The Cremation of Sam McGee"