Your adventure begins when you disembark and meet your costumed guide who “lives” in 1898 and accompanies you on your Alaskan experience. Your tour includes a trip through historic Skagway, an amazing encounter with sled dogs and mushers, a heaping dose of gold fever, a private tour of an authentic Klondike dredge, a BBQ lunch, and a campfire filled with surprises. Enter the Gold Rush Training Camp to learn how to extract paydirt, sluice, and assay your results. Take a guided tour of The Sixty Mile Dredge – one of the last rescued authentic gold dredges used for placer mining. Learn the art of gold panning with a humorous and educational show. Then practice your technique in heated troughs. Authentic Yukon gold is guaranteed! Weigh your valuable fortune with the assayers. Then meet canine athletes as well as the experienced mushers. Hear about the history of this breed through personal stories and an amazing collection of the gear necessary on long-distance races. Observe the musher hocking them up to an authentic sled for a fast practice lap around the track. The next generation of puppies are there to cuddle and hold. Puppy kisses guaranteed! Take a break with a lunch at the Alaskan BBQ where the menu is based on Alaskan home-grown foods and finish with a campfire complete with s’mores or soda floats (weather dependent), lots of performances, and laughter with costumed characters. You will return to the ship not as a cheechako (newcomer to Alaska) but as a seasoned sourdough (someone who has experienced Alaska and is now a part of its history and culture) with lots of memories to share back home.