ZIP Line!

Skagway "land of the North Wind"...now there was adventure! It was the Chicago of Alaska. It is literally one of the windiest places I have ever been. THIS was where we were doing the Zip line. This excursion was a joint decision by everyone.

We spent the morning in town shopping and going to the Red Onion Saloon for lunch. The Red Onion was originally a bordello in the days of the gold rush. Now they did theatrics to give it the authentic touch, as well as gave a tour of the original bordello upstairs. There were trinkets that the girls had received and left behind etc.

That afternoon we returned to the dock to board the bus for the adventure park. We were greeted by a energetic young lady who told us she'd hoped we brought our water bottles as we had a six mile hike uphill ahead of us. The group went silent. She laughed and said our adventure was really to begin just a few hundred feet up hill, which she traversed like a mountain goat effortlessly. I huffed and puffed my way up hill and hung on to branches etc. to the top. Once there we were helped in to our gear which was in essence going to save our necks/lives as we traversed higher than the trees on a metal hook and two ropes.

I was the first to travel across the rope bridge, and hanging balance beam. It was great fun!:-) What a way to experience loss of control! It was a rush to look down and see the tops of trees.

As the who of Skagway is only 4 blocks wide and 23 blocks long, we walked from the end of the shopping district and shopped our way back to the ship famished. We skipped the dinner that evening and noshed as soon as we returned to the boat.