Product Description
This DVD includes 5 programs.
Alaska Highway Wildlife - Enjoy this 5 year effort to document the animals along the highway. Marvel at mountains, muskeg, rivers, lakes & Kluane National Park. Experience Yukon in all 4 seasons. Learn both facts & legends of the animals. Black & grizzly bear, dall & stone sheep, elk, lynx, moose, mountain goats, snowshoe hares, bison, caribou, bald & golden eagle, owls & swans.
Yukon Memories - Experience dog mushing & snowmobiling. Travel to Whitehorse, Watson Lake, Carcross, Dawson City & Silver City. Relive the Klondike Gold Rush. Travel on the railway, on the Alaska Highway & down the Yukon River. Attend the Alaska Highway 50th Anniversary & Whitehorse International Airshow. Learn about Yukon's history at the McBride Museum & the Dawson City Museum.
The Gold Rush Trail - Goldseekers took 6 back-breaking months to travel from Skagway to Dawson City. Feel the aches as each prospector carries one ton of supplies in 20 trips up the Chilkoot trail. See Lake Bennett where 28,000 prospectors waited for the ice to breakup. Learn how the Mounties brought law and order to Dawson City.
Gold Rush Railroad, Special Edition - The White Pass & Yukon Route reduced a six month ordeal to a six day journey. Steam & diesel locomotives, rare motion pictures, some as old as 1901. Steam locomotives push a rotary snow plow through dozen foot drifts. Feel the excitement as the railroad helps build the Alaska Highway in World War II. Watch the railway modernize. Worry as this world historic treasure is almost lost.
Scenic Railway of the World - Enjoy your guided excursion of the White Pass & Yukon. Never forget this railroad hanging from a mountain and decorated with glaciers, forests, waterfalls, lakes, rivers, eagles and bears. Learn about one of the world's great historic treasures.