Any of you who travel know that there’s never enough time. That’s certainly the case with Halifax, Nova Scotia – the downtown and waterfront area deserves a week of exploring. But all we have is two days. By last night – the end of Day 4 of the trip...

We’ve started our 41-day Adventure to Newfoundland. This is now Day 4 – we arrived in Halifax yesterday afternoon. The journey began early on May 27th, with a 06:20 Air North flight from Whitehorse to Calgary, where we’d spend 2 days visiting family. The weather forecast had indicated it...

I needed to go into town yesterday to pick up a couple of things, so took my hiking and camera gear with the idea of putting about 4 km on, though I didn’t have a plan for where that might happen. Nothing inspired me and I was on my...

I’m writing this post because it’s quite different than the Venus Mine hike on May 15th. First, I took another person, but we also climbed all the way up to the upper level and adit, which is mostly what I want to show you. After seeing my post about...

The Venus Mine has become not just an awesome destination for a hike, but also a test for me to assess how I’m doing. Being able to reach the mine is always extremely gratifying, and I was about 65 years old when I recognized it as something to celebrate...

This post is from my Wayback Machine. I wrote this article and drew the map for the Four Wheel Drive Association of BC, and it was published in the Spring 1990 edition of their newsletter. I have added photos to it for this blog post – the originals are...

For many of us in Whitehorse, seeing the first Prairie crocuses is a big deal. I’ve hiked at two possible places for them recently – Hospital Ridge and the Lewes River Dam – with no luck, so yesterday went to the spot that usually results in seeing the early...

While scanning old papers yesterday, I came across a fairly detailed report on a hike I did at Anchorage in August 1990. The Wolverine Peak Trail remains one of the finest day-hikes I’ve ever done, so I thought I’d share a few of the Kodachromes I shot. There are...

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...