Re: White Pass & Yukon 41 years ago-Skagway, AK to Bennett Lake, BC (5)
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Photo No. 3 is Bare Loon Lake. So named in the 1970's, because Chilkoot Trail hikers heard loons wail there and skinny dipped there. It has unofficially been called Beaver Lake. But, there are at least 14 other Beaver Lake's in British Columbia, so the latter name never stuck.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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