After working four days, we dashed up the North Klondike Highway to Dawson City (where Lawrie & I, Jon and Chris lived from 1990 to 1994). This trip will likely be my last to this community and I was happy to be seeing it again. This is the Dawson City Music Festival weekend and we have tickets! We meet up with friends from Australia during the weekend and also do a vehicle shuttle from Minto Landing for some Whitehorse friends that are paddling to Dawson.

Besides taking in the Music Festival I take Ruth to the Gold Dredge #4 out on Bonanza Creek, wander the Museum, visit the Visitor’s Centre, go up the Top of the World Highway, and also up the Dome (the hill behind Dawson). We camp at the Klondike River Campground about 1/2 hour south of Dawson. It is quiet there and we didn’t actually have a choice as the closer campground is full several hours before we arrive Thursday night. We end up thinking it a blessing in many ways. The weather was hot and dry and we enjoyed every minute. Here are a sample of the photos taken … click here to see more!

My dear sister Ruth has come and gone, and is missed sorely. But she was here for five weeks and we had a blast. I’m thinking I’ll do a post for each week she was visiting and this will be week one.

Sunday, July 8th, Ruth arrived from Vancouver early afternoon and I returned home from Olds and Calgary at about 11 pm. Lawrie did a grand job of showing Ruth around Whitehorse prior to my flight arriving. We spent the week working and I must say that was fun and very useful as I currently have way too much work!

Our first weekend we spent with Sarah, Chris, Sarah’s mom, Chris’s Mom and Dad, and four dogs. We walked, fished, looked at mushrooms, played games, sat around a campfire, visited, and generally had a very nice time.