The Nome nugget., 1920-04-10
ADVENTUROUS LADY
 TRAVELLER DEPARTS

Alter dellNefinS tnls thioslun re- garding the news hunting fraternity. Miss Wilson said she is a professional nurse by occupation and has resided in Mexico City for twelve years. Dur ing a large part of this period she was in charge of hospital institution in Mexico City.
 Imbued with the idea of visiting Alaska in the dead of winter, she left the Mexican capital in November and arrived in Seattle early in January.
 T did not come straight through, because of the great change of cli- mate" she said. T came north by easy stages stopping here and there enroute, but never deviating in great degree from the direct route.
 After staying a short while in Se- attle I sailed for Cordova via the in- side passage and saw the wonderful coast of British Columbia and South- crn Alaska. Ii was wonderfully beau tiful with it's woods and peaks and glaciers"
 On reaching Cordova, she said she expected to enter the real wilderness" but was greatly disappointed to find herself bundled into q regular train" on the first stage of her journey into the interior.
 "I was really disappointed" she de- clared. Tt was just like being out i1 civilization. Having read that winter travel in Alaska was always done by dog team. l naturally expected to com. mence my journey into Alaska by that means. But. tho there was snow on the ground. I didn't even see a dog team and had to get on smoky. noisy train. It did not seem like it could be in Alaska at all
 Arriving at the end of the railroad. the courageous young woman took the stage to Fairbanks.
 Tt was fine" she said in reference to this stage of the journey. but I wanted to get on dog sled and the stage was something of disappoint- ment too. It was nice and cosy tho and the accommodations along the route were good. We finally arrived at Fairbanks and it was not until then did l achieve my desire of riding be- hind a dog team.
 But" she continued the best part of the whole trip was the journey down the great Yukon. I had all but con . cluded to give up the remainder of the trip because l could find no one who wanted to burden themselves with :i woman on such trip until Mir SeppAl, came. Even he did not want take and would not listen to the pro- posal at first. Kind people whom had met in Fairbanks finally induced him to take me, tho l could see that was not an overly welcome passenger at the start. He doubtless anticipated l l was going to he very much of q nuisance. Perhaps l was but 1 think learned to be quite q musher and to travel eight or nine hours at a stretch without eating.
 There were two men passengers with us and the trails were bad at the start, but after We reached kaltag it was fine all the way. After we left kaltag. We were alone on the trail most of the way and learned to drive Mir Seppala's splendid team and take turns at the handle bars with him.
 It was splendid and I stood it fine. Indeed I picked up ten pounds in weight on the trip. l intended to go to Candle and thus see the shores of the Arctic Ocean and give myself the opportunity to say I had crossed the entire territory of Alaska in winter. But weather and trails were so bad, We way.
 That's all there was to the trip she added. as if the whole long jour ney over the great snow wastes oi the North had been mere pleasure jaunt. unaccompanied by such things as bitter cold, blinding storms and the crude accommodations of i'll kep, road houses and ''Siwash" shacks.
 That she is indeed a most eoura.
 
 Mir Seppala himself attests: q hay., been on the trail with a lot of men who were worse mushers than she is.' he said when asked as to the sour dough qualities of his fair charge She is all right" he asserted. "she stood up to the trail grind as well as Ntasa av1Nv s-kr