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WINTER RENDEZVOUS
February 16, 2019
When you hike the ChilKoot Trail you are following in the foot-steps of Tlingit traders, explorers, and gold rush stampedes. Tlingit traders established the trail, transporting fish oil and other coastal products to interior people to trade for animal skins, fur clothing and copper. When news of gold discoveries in the Yukon spread throughout the world, the ChilKoot became the most popular route to the gold fields. Between 1897 and 1898, thou-sands of people of all genders, races and lifestyles stampeded across the trail. While they came with dreams of wealth and ad-venture, most found hardship and challenge on the ChilKoot Trail. The sense of awe and accomplishment, however, was what they remembered when they returned home to tell their tales. What tales will you tell? Your job as a Klondiker is to gather as
much gold as you can. There will be all kinds of challenges along the way. Be ready!!
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