Things Go Awry

I’m up at 6:20 to prep for the Chilkoot hike. I didn’t get a full eight hours, but I want time for my morning exercise routine, breakfast, a last check through my pack.

Hannah has found the only place in Skagway that’s open for breakfast, so we backpack the 18 blocks there.

Night Walk, Seattle

It’s seven-something, barely dark. The signs say “public access” everywhere, but it still feels transgressive somehow to be…

E Line, Denny Stop

“He forgot his hat!”

A black knit hat with a white snowflake intarsia lays on the floor of the E…

Dawson City

There’s an avalanche scar seated high above the city. It’s a huge white talus slope that dominates the mountainside. You see it over the trees before you take the last bend of the Yukon into Dawson City.