Hike to the powerhouse #8

By Mike Spadafora; posted June 20, 2004
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WE MADE IT!!! We are now some five miles in with blisters and a smattering of owies. We see our new home in sight ! That last 50 foot hill up to the plant site is really all we can take! .. Time to relax !!! This will be home for the next few days. It is now around 2pm The clouds to the south east look evil but no thunderstorms yet !!! We made it in dry !!! This is the long abandon Skagway powerhouse built in 1899. .The plant was abandoned in 1965 as there was no market for its 33 cycle power and the cost of repairing the flume pipe after a big flood was prohibitive . .. you can't run a hydro plant without water! The next set of photos is your tour of the plant....[id=92355372]

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