Pioneer Outfitters will take you on a journey that started in 1891. The last historic gold rush began in ernest in 1913 and turned the native Atha
bascan community into what would become the largest log cabin settlement in the state of Alaska, for a brief time.
Bonanza, Big Eldorado, and Little Eldorado Creeks, are the creeks at which we will teach you how to pan for gold. The remains of the old Chisana Whore House will trigger memories of old movies, which will help you see how life was so long ago.
With the remaining prospectors and miners that still mine for gold in the area, Pioneer Outfitters will share the planning and therories that inspired and directed the first prospectors to find and follow the gold.
Pioneer Outfitters Guides will lead you over the Old Goat Trail. One old timer, George Hazelet, who traversed it in mid-July 1913, described this so-called "goat trail" as an extremely dangerous place for horses, . . . being simply a sheep trail widened to about two feet. The drop to the bottom is as much as two thousand feet in places and should horse or man lose his footing he could not stop till he reached the bottom." (It is magnificent!)
