Month: June 2007

We’re at the cabin for 2 weeks, but spent Tuesday night in the city. That night, a grizzly raided the place – bit through and crushed a garbage can, tore my main bird feeder off the wall beside the kitchen window, then went next door and damaged a storage...

You’ve all surely seen articles about being a tourist in your own town. I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who really have no idea what their town or area has that attracts visitors. In the Yukon, Whitehorse particularly, the percentage of such folks seems to have increased...

It’s now been about 7 weeks since the equipment for our new footbridge started arriving in Carcross, and I’m spending a lot of time (too much time perhaps) watching/photographing the progress of the job. We’ve posted an annotated album with 48 photos here....

The photo below shows the way things looked in Carcross 2 hours ago, with the train to Skagway leaving and the new footbridge being built behind. Carcross is changing rapidly – the psychological changes have already occurred, and the physical ones will take place over this summer and the...

The “Welcome to Yukon” sign on the South Klondike Highway was taken down a couple of weeks ago for renovation. I assumed that the renovation would largely entail changing the slogan from “Canada’s True North” (which I found offensive) to “Larger Than Life”. But it went back up on...