Skagway is hiring people spend the summer living in wall tents, watching for rockslides eight to ten hours a day.
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Engineering firm pitches plan to solve Skagway’s rockslide problem
If Skagway wants to return to hosting four ships at a time next summer, it has less than seven months to fix the problem.
Skagway’s busiest cruise ship dock at risk of catastrophic rockslide, study says
The study’s authors say that movement is increasing in one slide area, suggesting that “the failure event is approaching.”