One of the best-known images of the Klondike Strike is the line of men lock stepping up the ice staircase.  What most people do not know is these men were carrying 80-pound packs – on each trip.  You could not get into Canada unless you had 1,000 pounds of supplies. To get those supplies into Canada, you stepped them up the ice staircase, 80 pounds a trip.  That’s 12 trips up the ice staircase. How did you get down to the bottom to get another load?  Here’s how; a slide that ran alongside the men lock stepping up the incline. 

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