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I won't tie up too much of the net with this one, but I would say Skagway was our favorite stop on the trip for a variety of reasons and the train was only one of them. And yes, I thought I saw big mountains in Montana where I've spent lots of time. And I was like, ah, those are pretty big mountains. No, you go to Alaska, you see some serious ones. Holy cow. And the train trip was great along the edge of the mountain and going over train trestles or whatever on the side. It was beautiful all the way up. We got great weather. I've heard weather in Alaska can be iffy. But it wasn't iffy. It was beautiful sunshine and had a great all the way up past Summit Lake at the top of White Pass there to see where all the gold miners used to trek their way up there. Here, trivia for the netsters. There is actually, if you look outside the train while you're going up the pass, you can actually see the path that was etched into the side of the mountain by thousands and thousands, actually a little over about 150,000 walked up White Pass back in the late 1890s. And the path was so trodden by all those feet searching for gold. The path is etched in the side of the mountain. You can still see it today. 125 years later it's still there. So anyway, kind of an amazing thing that happened many, many moons ago. So anyway, thanks for that. I won't tie up the net too much longer just to say thanks Michael for that. And I looked it up. It's actually about a 2 hour 15 minute drive so I wasn't super close but there we go. All right, let's go down to Primeville, Oregon and see what Dave has going on. Hello and good morning KD7PWB.