(They hook them up to a four wheeler and have them pull that instead of the sled.) She also showed us how they keep up training them in the summer time when they cannot take the sleds out. Her daughters who live there now and take care of the business showed us how they train the puppies to be mushers from the day they are born. The riverboat starts to travel up river some more and stops on the shore of the Chena River at Trailbraker Kennels, where Susan Butcher, a four-time Iditarod champion lived. The pilot of the plane explains to everyone how important the role of planes are in remote Alaska and tells a few stories of the village life which we got to experience later on in the tour. The thing that makes the Riverboat so special is that its a 900 passenger sternwheeler, The captain makes his way up the river and a float plane takes off in front of the boat and lands right next to us. We were completely surprised to see all 700+ tourists arrive and slowly board the boat. Yep 700 people! Finally after about 6 weeks we had a couple days off where we could make our much anticipated trip to Fairbanks to do some grocery shopping and to finally do the tours we had been talking about since the last time we were there. We did not have time to do the tours that day but both agreed that the next time we went to Fairbanks they would be the first things we did.Īs May left us pretty rapidly, June started to breeze by too. One of our finds was the Riverboat Discovery Tour and the Gold Dredge 8 Tour. While we were waiting for the camper to get finished, we did a little exploring through the city. When we first arrived in Alaska back in May, one of our first stops was in Fairbanks to get a few kinks on our camper worked out.
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