B&W gallery: Native shed

There's not a lot to do in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, once you've checked out the mall and

the three-storey log cabin and the preserved paddle steamers from Gold Rush days (which

were torched by an arsonist a few years ago and destroyed). And there's not a lot to do in

Fairbanks, Alaska, either, assuming you're not at the University and have already been to the

cod 'North Pole' tourist trap out of town, and seen the oil pipeline from Prudhoe Bay on the

Arctic Ocean.

Which makes it all the more surprising that I can't remember where I took this picture of an

Athabaskan Indian fish-drying shed: was it on the banks of the Yukon River or the Nenana R.

in central Alaska? Either way it was on one of the native Indian settlements that you're

inevitably taken to and from which you're expected to buy trinkets or quiviut boots (proper

mukluks). So if you go, opt for a river trip on a restored sternwheeler, in our case the

'Discovery', memorable for its seating area surrounded by hundreds of bright red life jackets,

just in case. With an old timer with missing fingers on the boat's piano, you can relieve the

boredom for a few happy hours by pretending you're on your way to the Klondike....

There's not a lot to do in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, once you've checked out the mall and

the three-storey log cabin and the preserved paddle steamers from Gold Rush days (which

were torched by an arsonist a few years ago and destroyed). And there's not a lot to do in

Fairbanks, Alaska, either, assuming you're not at the University and have already been to the

cod 'North Pole' tourist trap out of town, and seen the oil pipeline from Prudhoe Bay on the

Arctic Ocean.

Which makes it all the more surprising that I can't remember where I took this picture of an

Athabaskan Indian fish-drying shed: was it on the banks of the Yukon River or the Nenana R. in

central Alaska? Either way it was on one of the native Indian settlements that you're inevitably

taken to and from which you're expected to buy trinkets or quiviut boots (proper mukluks). So

if you go, opt for a river trip on a restored sternwheeler, in our case the 'Discovery', memorable

for its seating area surrounded by hundreds of bright red life jackets, just in case. With an old

timer with missing fingers on the boat's piano, you can relieve the boredom for a few happy

hours by pretending you're on your way to the Klondike....

Native hut, Alaska