{"id":612,"date":"2009-06-24T09:12:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2012-01-29T22:41:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T05:41:52","slug":"confessions-of-a-park-ranger-talk-addict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/post-id\/612","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Park Ranger Talk Addict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"Dawson Tour Guide\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3384\/3650096716_9de7b972dd_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3384\/3650096716_9de7b972dd_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dawson Tour Guide\" width=\"66\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a> OK &#8211; I confess &#8211; I love Park Ranger talks &#8211; and we have found some pretty good ones as we&#8217;ve traveled! I didn&#8217;t realize that a main part of Skagway was a National Historical Park, complete with many free ranger movies, talks and walks. Although there are lots of shopkeepers ready to &#8220;mine&#8221; the tourist, similar to the way the stampeders were &#8220;mined&#8221; as they arrived in Skagway, my favorite part of visiting the historical mining towns were the park ranger talks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In our visits to the Barkerville, BC, Skagway, AK and Dawson City, YT, I learned a lot about the gold rushes of the 19th century. Just a few facts:<\/p>\n<p>Though over 100,000 set out, only 30,000 made it to Skagway.<\/p>\n<p>Skagway wasn&#8217;t the destination, but simply the staging spot before crossing the Chilkoot Pass,\u00a0 a steep rocky mountain, on foot, in the snow, with enough supplies to last a year.<\/p>\n<p>By the time (a year later) those determined few made it all the way to Dawson City in the Yukon, the sourdoughs (local miners already working and living in the area) had staked all the claims and made their millions.<\/p>\n<p>You can see a few pictures of the Dawson City area in our album titled <a href=\"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/flickrphotos\/album\/72157620088338701\/2009-06-19.html\">06-19 Dawson City<\/a> at right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK &#8211; I confess &#8211; I love Park Ranger talks &#8211; and we have found some pretty good ones as we&#8217;ve traveled! I didn&#8217;t realize that a main part of Skagway was a National Historical Park, complete with many free ranger movies, talks and walks. Although there are lots of shopkeepers ready to &#8220;mine&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}