"Today, gold rush history dominates the Chilkoot Trail. There are glaciers set like chips of blue-green jewels among the mountains, and you might see a mountain goat or a black bear in a meadow, but the Chilkoot is not a wilderness trail. It is a hike through history. Here, you walk through the footsteps of the stampeders."

(Text from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Hiking the Chilkoot Trail," April 1997, National Geographic Traveler magazine)