AT#198 - Travel to the Yukon Territory in Canada (and nearby Alaska)

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 September 2009

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Sarah from Whitehorse in the Yukon about that corner of Canada with long winters but dramatic scenery. She tells of of Winter festivals like the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous as well as Summer festivals like Dawson City Music fest, Atlin Arts and Music Fest and the Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Festival. We talk about sporting events like the 24 Hours of Light and Kluane to Chilkat (Haines to Haines) bike races because Sarah says you have to like the outdoors to come to the Yukon. Sarah also gives us some itineraries for road warriors like the Top of the World Highway to Dawson (and the Dempster Highway for the bold among you) and the Golden Circle route into Alaska. We walk the Chilkoot Trail but without the requirement to bring 1,000 pounds of supplies like in the Yukon gold rush. It is the beauty of Kluane National Park that you will remember but strangely enough it was something else that Sarah was looking at when she decided to move to the Yukon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags packed on a roll. I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go. Looking real good in my
0:09.0	passport photo.
0:11.0	15 Amateur Traveler episode 198. Today the amateur traveler talks about hiking road trips and long
0:17.6	winters as we go to the Yukon Territory in Canada. Welcome to the
0:23.0	I got the city one more cafe.
0:25.0	I know that I should be heading home
0:29.0	but maybe not maybe not
0:31.0	today.
0:32.0	Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get
0:36.3	into this week's interview I do have three news stories for you. The first one
0:40.9	is you thought your vacation was rough a British couple were robbed stabbed and
0:47.2	Poison as they went to their dream vacation in Venezuela and this did happen on the island of Margarita which we talked
0:53.4	about recently on the amateur traveler. And in the second news stories I know that
0:57.8	New York hotels are expensive but I'm not sure why Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi, as he's planning to visit New York City,
1:06.7	has asked for permission to pitch a tent in Central Park.
1:11.2	He was denied.
1:13.0	And then if you live in the United States or at least are planning to be there in September
1:16.7	26th, you could volunteer as part of a project to beautify national public lands and some 130,000 volunteers are expected to spend
1:26.4	September 26th working in parks, beaches, and wildlife preserves to build trails, remove
1:32.0	garbage and pull up invasive plants.
1:34.8	For links to all of those stories, check out the show notes at amateur traveler.com.
1:38.8	I'd like to welcome the show Sarah who is coming to us from White Horse in the
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