Part of Alaskan Trail Officially Like AT

Okay, maybe not "officially." But it was in the Outdoors News Wire of 4 March 2007, where Paul Nickodem wrote about "Alaska's Chilkoot Trail."

Somewhere down in the middle of the trail review comes this: "The beginning of the trail was very surprisingly Appalachian Trail-like, very deep and woodsy, and also boggy at times. Coming over the first big hill, the trail became a quagmire of boot grabbin' mud. The trail was not the pushover that I thought it might be since so many people do it every year; it was a rough trail, with lots of rocks, especially on the Canadian side."

There you have it: the Chilkoot Trail is "surprisingly Appalachian Trail-like". You heard it here second.