Friday, June 22, 2012

It's All Downhill From Here

So the train stopped in Canada, and we headed back down the pass. As you can see, it was a rather misty morning, and we were unable to see some of the sights, but others were still visible...

This was the coolest bridge. See if you can enlarge the picture to get a good look at it. It is all cantilevered from the left side, except for one little bit of pipe under the bridge on the right side. See it? The gorge the bridge is over is actually a fault line...big rushing water, deep. That little bit of pipe on the right is there only to keep the bridge from shifting during seismic activity.
Here is the view from on top of the bridge...
And this is the fault line, back behind it in the first picture. Deeeeeeep.
It seems that the picture i threw up here a couple of days ago didn't give us the perspective we need, so we are gonna try it again...
...here is a part of the original trail up the pass to the Klondike, yes, that is it...that skinny little whitish streak between the two poles in the lower right hand quadrant:

And this is the rock formation that looks like......
I said a horse, but Susan said donkey, because of the white muzzle. I will defer to her superior knowledge, although the ears are still a problem for me.

And this lovely, long waterfall is spilling into none other than...

...Goat Lake.

1 comment:

Sharon said...

Love all the pictures, wish we could have rushing water like that here in East Texas.