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The Stampede Trail is a remote road and trail located in the Denali Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.Apart from a paved or maintained gravel road for 8 miles (13 km) between Eight Mile Lake and the trail's eastern end, the route consists of a primitive and at times dangerous hiking or ATV (all-terrain vehicle) trail following the path of the original road, which has deteriorated over the years.
After hiking along the snow-covered Stampede Trail, McCandless came upon an abandoned bus (about 28 miles (45 km) west of Healy at ) alongside an overgrown section of the trail near Denali National McCandless, according to Krakauer, attempted to continue "heading west until [he] hit the Bering Sea ."
The Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail is about halfway between Stampede Pass and I-90. In 1939, the Northern Pacific opened a ski area on the eastern portal of the Stampede Tunnel called Martin Ski Dome. [15] The resort was to compete with the Milwaukee Ski Bowl a few miles north at Hyak.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) -- Authorities rescued three men making a pilgrimage to an abandoned bus in the Alaska wilderness made famous by the book and film "Into the Wild." Three hikers, two from ...
The river is crossed by the Denali Park Road and the Stampede Trail, and was heavily prospected in the early 20th century for the many coal, gold, and platinum deposits found along its banks. The name derives from the Lower Tanana (Athabascan) words meaning "water-amulet river". [4]
The Klondike Gold Rush [n 1] was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon in northwestern Canada, between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896; when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered a stampede of prospectors.
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The event on Dec. 28, 1991, was planned at the last minute and had disorganized security; rowdy crowds resulted in a stampede killing nine people and injuring 29, according to a 1992 report by New ...