Whitehorse is located at Historic Mile 918 of the Alaska Highway and is the former terminus of the White Pass and Yukon Route Railway from Skagway, Alaska. At the head of navigation on the Yukon River, the city was an important supply centre during the Klondike Gold Rush. The city gets its name from the White Horse Rapids, which were said to look like the mane of a white horse. Alternate stories have the rapids named after a First Nations Chief who drowned while crossing the rapids. The rapids have disappeared under Schwatka Lake, formed by the construction of a hydroelectric dam in 1958. Like most of the Yukon, Whitehorse has a dry subarctic climate. (Wikipedia)

Photos were taken from the Five Finger Rapids beautiful scenic viewpoint overlooking the Yukon River north of Carmacks. Named by the five fingers formed by rock pillars, the rapids had to be negotiated during the gold rush days by many pioneers.