Beautiful sunny summer day, so we went for a wee hike along Miles Canyon.
For those that lived in Whitehorse, you will remember that the rapids (in 1898) were large, so large in fact that the RCMP decided that those thousands of stampeders on their way to Dawson City to make their fortune, couldn't travel it without an experienced river guide. So those same travellers, who rafted from Bennet Lake to this point, had to set up camp and wait for a guide - thus Canyon City was born. The stampeders saw the white water of the rapids, thought it looked like a horse's mane, hence the name Whitehorse. Today the rapids are mild, due to the fact that a dam was constructed in 1958.
Although tamer, it is still very beautiful and peaceful.
Kristin jumps down a small ledge to test the temperature of the water. "Not too cold" according to Kristin.
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