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Wintering at the Lakes"On the far side of the passes, the White and Chilkoot trails met at Lake Bennett, a large lake that drained into the Yukon River. Stampeders wintered and built boats here and at nearby Lake Lindemann until the Yukon River thawed in spring.  Tent communities of about 10,000 each formed at Lakes Bennett and Lindemann during the winter of 1897-1898.
 
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To build boats, stampeders had to locate usable
logs and whipsaw them into planks. Finding wood was hard because the
lakes were near timberline. Whipsawing logs was backbreaking and
frustrating labor. Circa 1898.