We are going on the Alaska cruise next week and will be in Skagway for about five hours. Are there any good gunshops that I should check out?Or any historical sites that we should see. Thanks

Skagway is a neat LITTLE town. Don't expect to find any gunshops though. As I recall, I don't think 1,000 people live there. There is much there about the Klondike Gold Rush. Skagway was the jumping off point for many of the would-be miners who were headed to the Yukon to seek their fortune.

It's a lot smaller than I thought. Oh well, should be some good sightseeing there. Thanks

Take lots of pics, especially from the Inside Passage, this will be the best trip of your life.

i liked the train trip up to the border. good scenery and wildlife viewing.

Also stopped at a famous watering hole and located a good place to feast on crab.

Small town but a memorable short visit.

What was most memorable was the display of the provisions a typical miner left town with. He bodily carried it up to the pass in several trips or bought a mule if he had the money. Canada did not let the miners in if they did not have a year's stock of food with them.

We leave Tuesday morning and will report on what we saw. It's got to be a whole lot prettier than Wichita Falls. Thanks

Rabbit,I'me from Wichita Falls + you are SO right,anything is prettier.

I frequent Seymore and Wichita Falls quite a bit as I have kin folks there and we like to get together to share a few drinks and laughs.

I ask you guys to reconsider what you said about the WF area not being prettier.

Where else can you go to see RED dirt, short scrubby mesquite and pear? with some ???????? person riding a bicycle through there in their little bike shorty shorts when it is 110'? Scenery and Entertainment.

Where else but Wichita Falls could you take the water from the stock tanks and paint your house with it.

If it is still open, there is a gun shop in Skagway:

Pioneer Gun Shop
local.yahoo.com
(907) 983-2555

8th Ave & State St, Skagway, AK.


BTW, Taking that train on through the pass from Skagway and over to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory is a real fun experience too. The narrow-gauge railway clings to the side of the mountains and is so curvy that 90 foot "joints" of high pressure pipe for the gas pipeline couldn't be brought into the Yukon over that bit of rail, at least not back in 1978-'79. It was too curvy for the pipe to make it around the corners. So we had to truck in the pipe up the Alaska Highway.

I might have missed it; the only guns I saw was in a hardware store and there werent but three of them. Next time we will take the train ride instead of the raft trip.

If you make it to Anchorage stop by Humpy's

I was in Humpys in May, a guy should be in the neighborhood once a year...