After a quick unfulfilling lunch on the ship (I planned to go to a crab shack that we found in the morning but they ran out of crab!) we headed out to get on our tour. The very unhelpful woman from the tour company informed us that it had been canceled as well. NG. Long story short, we booked a trip to a sled dog summer camp and booked a helicopter glacier tour for tomorrow out of Skagway.
We were both a bit bummed that we wouldn’t be able to ride a sled on snow, but were happy to be going to see the dogs. The camp is located at the top of this old scary one lane mining road. Our bus driver (short bus) was a bit nuts, but got us there safely.
The camp was very cool. About 160 dogs spend the summer there and train with their owner/mushers for the1, 000 mile plus Iditarod and Yukon Quest races as well as shorter ones. We learned how they train them, got pulled for a couple of miles by them in basically a large unmotorized golf cart and got to check out lots of the equipment used for racing and camping on the trail. We then got to hold the puppies born on July 4. Jane wanted to keep one of them, but the mama dog got mad. After a nail-biting ride down the mountain, we boarded the ship in time for dinner…Oysters Rockefeller, French Onion Soup, Chicken pate with pistachios, osso bucco, pasta with grilled steak and a really tasty coconut crème brulee.
Earlier in the day we were walking on the ship and a guy said “Sox fan, hey sox fan” (I was wearing my sox cap). He asked where we were from and told us where he was from. He then asked us if we had seen those commercials with the guy in the cab for Olympia sports. It was him…Jimmy Dunn who is also the voice for Sox Appeal. He is the comedian on board tomorrow night. We may check that out.
We were both a bit bummed that we wouldn’t be able to ride a sled on snow, but were happy to be going to see the dogs. The camp is located at the top of this old scary one lane mining road. Our bus driver (short bus) was a bit nuts, but got us there safely.
The camp was very cool. About 160 dogs spend the summer there and train with their owner/mushers for the1, 000 mile plus Iditarod and Yukon Quest races as well as shorter ones. We learned how they train them, got pulled for a couple of miles by them in basically a large unmotorized golf cart and got to check out lots of the equipment used for racing and camping on the trail. We then got to hold the puppies born on July 4. Jane wanted to keep one of them, but the mama dog got mad. After a nail-biting ride down the mountain, we boarded the ship in time for dinner…Oysters Rockefeller, French Onion Soup, Chicken pate with pistachios, osso bucco, pasta with grilled steak and a really tasty coconut crème brulee.
Earlier in the day we were walking on the ship and a guy said “Sox fan, hey sox fan” (I was wearing my sox cap). He asked where we were from and told us where he was from. He then asked us if we had seen those commercials with the guy in the cab for Olympia sports. It was him…Jimmy Dunn who is also the voice for Sox Appeal. He is the comedian on board tomorrow night. We may check that out.
I think you should bring those cute puppies home for all of your friends and family! I am sure you have LOTS of room in your luggage :-)
ReplyDeleteI can't believe the crab hut ran out of crab...the ones you were holding the other day could have satisfied a small army...maybe you should let them know about that!
Loving the pics and updates.
M