Our day in Skagway started early, with us disembarking the ship just after 8 AM and heading to the train depot. We traveled the White Pass & Yukon Route twenty miles to the White Pass Summit turnaround just inside the British Columbia border. Along the way, we viewed numerous glacier fed waterfalls as we wound our way along the Skagway River. The White Pass actually runs a full sixty-seven miles, ending at Carcross in the Yukon Territory.

Upon our return to the depot, we explored downtown Skagway and had lunch at the Skagway Brewing Company. Stampeders of the past were commonly afflicted with scurvy, which is a vitamin C deficiency. This area is not conducive to growing fruits like oranges and lemons; however, spruce tips, which are abundantly available, is rich in vitamin C. The stampeders would brew the tips into a tea and later incorporated the extract into a beer. It has been said that a spruce tip ale has as much vitamin C in it as a glass of orange juice. After lunch and some last minute shopping, the wind picked up and we returned to the ship.