The prompt for this post was yesterday’s short but perfect hike on the Hospital Ridge trail in downtown Whitehorse after doing some errands in town, but while I’m here I’ll show a bit of the other things going on in my world. The main thing is that Spring finally...

The weather forecast for yesterday called for sunshine and a high of 12°C/54°F. It had been about 7 months since we’d seen a day like that, so this was a day to get outside! I asked Cathy if she’d like to join me at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve and...

After a crazy day in Vancouver on Wednesday (April 15th), Thursday and Friday were relatively quiet. Cathy and I went for a walk to Stanley Park on Thursday afternoon, I went for another early-morning walk on Friday (to English Bay), then at noon on Friday we started for home....

I really got carried away with this post – it has 66 photos and 1,881 words, and took me two days to write, but it was a crazy day. I had taken my new “travel” laptop with the intention of writing briefer-than-usual posts each day, then just couldn’t do...

Cathy and I flew to Vancouver on Tuesday, April 14th, and returned home on Friday the 17th. After a brutal winter of record-breaking cold and then snow, it was wonderful. It began as a medical trip – a 6-month post-surgery checkup for me – but we added an extra...

On March 22nd, a couple of hours after the sun rose, I posted the first photo below on Facebook with the comment “There’s a little Boreal owl asleep in my bird feeder! This is a first.” The owl has now spent many days with us and this afternoon (April...

As our very hard winter continues, my need for a proper day in the mountains is getting stronger. Ten days ago I headed south on a day that had potential, but the weather went sour in a major way just south of Log Cabin. This was the final photo...

This week, Whitehorse was part of an historic event for the Indonesian Air Force – we were one of the stops on the delivery flight of their second new Airbus A400M Atlas aircraft, tail number A-4002, serial number 150. Two A400Ms were ordered by Indonesia in 2021, but last...

I needed to get away from the computer and snow shovels yesterday, and on the spur of the moment decided that a drive to Kluane Lake – a 500-km round trip – would be a good way to do that (see a map of the route). I see in...

I had been watching the weather forecasts and road reports for many weeks, looking for a good day to get into the mountains, and it finally came together yesterday (Saturday, January 24). The weather forecasts called from sun in both Whitehorse and Skagway, with highs of -17°C and -1°C...