{"id":21581,"date":"2009-06-04T13:27:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T20:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2016-09-11T16:46:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T13:46:52","slug":"five-finger-rapids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/five-finger-rapids\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Finger Rapids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Five Finger Rapids are quite possibly the best known landmark on the Yukon River and were quite an obstacle for ships to pass on their way north. They are called such because of four islands in the river creating five channels, of which only one, the most easterly, is navigable. The hike down to the rapids is easy, but not the one back as it is an incredibly steep climb up a long staircase.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1613\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1613\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1613\" title=\"cimg0078\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg0078.jpg\" alt=\"Five Finger Rapids as seen from the observation deck off the Klondike Highway\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Five Finger Rapids as seen from the observation deck off the Klondike Highway<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1614\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1614\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1614\" title=\"cimg0082\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg0082.jpg\" alt=\"Just a small portion of the stairs that needed to be climbed back up!\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just a small portion of the stairs that needed to be climbed back up!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1615\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1615\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1615\" title=\"cimg0090\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg0090.jpg\" alt=\"About halfway down to the Rapids\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">About halfway down to the Rapids<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1616\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1616\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1616\" title=\"cimg0091\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg0091.jpg\" alt=\"At level with the rapids\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At level with the rapids<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1617\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1617\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1617\" title=\"cimg0092\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg0092.jpg\" alt=\"spot Miranda ;)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">spot Miranda \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1618\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1618\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1618\" title=\"cimg0097\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg0097.jpg\" alt=\"the Rapids as seen from the observation deck at the bottom of the trail\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the Rapids as seen from the observation deck at the bottom of the trail<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Five Finger Rapids are quite possibly the best known landmark on the Yukon River and were quite an obstacle for ships to pass on their way north. They are called such because of four islands in the river creating five channels, of which only one, the most easterly, is navigable. The hike down to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,635,5,3,1040],"tags":[654,1469,802],"class_list":["post-21581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-yukon","tag-hiking","tag-klondike-highway","tag-parksgardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}