After docking in Skagway, Alaska, we rented a car and took a drive northward on the South Klondike Highway. The highway runs 98 miles through British Columbia and the Yukon to the Alaska Highway 10 miles east of Whitehorse. Each curve in the the road brought jaw-dropping scenery, from towering granite peaks to pristine lakes. We travelled about 60 miles, into Yukon Territory (“Larger Than Life – Plus Grande Que Nature”), before needing to turn around to get back to the ship. We were but a speck along this amazing highway surrounded by nature’s magnificent beauty in all its glory.
In response to WPC: Scale.
For another perspective on “scale,” see Cruise Ships Docked.
Visual Venturing 
Stunning!!
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God’s country, for sure 🙂 Thanks, and thanks too for my uptick in blog views today 😀
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My pleasure! Gorgeous images– like always! …I’m just not sure why they aren’t showing in my Reader…hmmmmm 😀
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I hate when that happens with my reader too 😕
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Stunning photos, Stacy! What a ride! I’d love to take that ride on the bike. Just incredible!
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Oh, I can picture you doing that, Laurie!! 😀 Okay, so that now makes the Pacific Coast Highway and the Klondike Highway added to your bucket list 😉
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Alaska is on my bucket list!! Gorgeous shots of such a magnificent place Stacy!. ( BC is full of mountains too) I do want to see the glaciers as well.
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Cybele, so much to see and experience in Alaska, and we only saw a small part of it. We didn’t make it as far north as Denali, and I hear it’s spectacular. If we ever get the chance to return, that’s where I’ll head. I hope you get the chance! Thanks so much for your comment 🙂
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How tempting to keep driving through this fabulous scenery, beautiful shots Stacy!
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The only thing that made it “exciting” to turn around and head back was the promise of cruising to Sawyer Glacier the following morning, Patti 🙂 Thanks so much for your comments!
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Gorgeous! I particularly love the first photo. I hope to visit Alaska one day.
janet
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Thanks, Janet. The first is my favorite too 🙂 Hope you do get the chance!!
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WOW! WOW! WOW! Incredibly beautiful! Scale or no scale…. what fabulous photos and what a fabulous cruise!
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Thanks, Nancy 🙂 It definitely was – I’m blessed to have had the experience!
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Beautiful!!!
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Can you imagine living surrounded by this scenery?? Unbelievable 🙂 Thanks, Gavin.
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It’s making me very jealous!!! But it still takes a good photographer to make the scenery look good, it’s a great photo!
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😊 Thanks very much for that.
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Stunning!!!
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Thanks, Victoria!
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Wow…
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Thanks, KG! Every bend in the road brought views like this 🙂
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Simply wonderful !
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Thanks, Max!
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Hi Stacy!
I absolutely love the pictures and their sharpness. They look breathtaking! May I ask what camera, lens and settings you’re using? Especially for the 1st one?
Thanks and have a great weekend!
Hanni
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Thanks so much, Hanni! I’m on my iPad at the moment and can’t pull up all the info. It was with a Nikon D90. I promise to get back to you with the rest of it!
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Hanni, I used my Nikkor 18.0-200.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 lens at 18mm, 1/2000 sec @ f/3.5, ISO 320. I was in shutter priority mode (I had been taking photos from a moving car) and I must not have changed my settings when we quickly pulled off to the side of the road so that I could take this shot. (I was just beginning to experiment with getting off of Automatic.) As it turned out, though, the original photo was exposed wonderfully for the highlights (sky and mountains); it was just way underexposed for the shadows, which I dealt with in post-processing.
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Thank you so much, Stacy!
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My pleasure, Hanni 🙂
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So beautiful. I really love Alaska.
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Laura, I remember seeing a picture of Sawyer Glacier on your blog at one point. We saw that too – magnificent! God’s country!
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It is definitely God’s country! We’d like to go back some day.
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Us too 🙂
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I like the first picture because the road and lake lead you in. THe second picture is good and works really well with the theme of scale.
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Thanks, Ben. The first photo is definitely the stronger in terms of composition, but as you recognized, the second one is stronger at indicating scale. Had to include both 🙂
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There’s no place like Alaska.
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Seeing Alaska was on my bucket list for decades, Bruce. It didn’t disappoint!
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Oh my, breathtakingly beautiful.
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Loré, it was fantastic! I wished we had had more time to go further north 🙂
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