A sunny dog-play day at Dyea, Alaska

Posted On May 17, 2019

When we’re due for a big dog play-day and something a bit different, its hard to beat Dyea, so on April 28th we drove down for the day.

We made a brief stop at Emerald Lake at 10:15 to get a photo as part of my records of when the ice goes off the lake.

Just south of Log Cabin, I stopped to get another photo – this is the first good view of the peaks surrounding the White Pass.

The peaks surrounding the White Pass on the South Klondike Highway

Another stop for something resulted in a few photos of this little waterfall along the highway. The frozen teardrops at the bottom were wonderful.

Partly-frozen waterfall in the White Pass

I’ve taken a lot of photos of Summit Lake and the Sawtooth Range from this location over the years.

Summit Lake and the Sawtooth Range on the South Klondike Highway

This valley, shot from the same location, has always intrigued me, but access is quite difficult and I haven’t made an attempt yet. Last year, my friend Greg and I did accomplish the canoe-and-hike into the next valley to the north, though.

A couple of people in a hiking group I belong to have asked whether the International Falls trail is hikeable yet, so I stopped to take some photos of it. No, it’ll be Winter there for a few weeks yet.

International Falls trail in late winter

We stopped in Skagway for lunch at the new Skagway Brewing Company building – looks like a gold mine to me 🙂 (and the halibut was excellent as always). Then we made a loop around town to see what’s new this year. The Skagway-Haines fast-cat was out doing some training or testing.

We reached Dyea (“finally!”, said Bella and Tucker, no doubt 🙂 ) just after 1:00. Time to run. These pilings are from the extremely long (almost 2 miles, if I remember correctly) wharf built in 1898.