Month: August 2007

Weather forecasts make me nuts – they are so seldom right it’s really a waste of time even looking. But now they can’t even get the Current Conditions right 🙁 On Tuesday morning at 11:00, the Current Conditions said sunny and 16°C – it was actually raining and 8°...

Brrrrrrr – I’m not nearly ready for Summer to leave 🙁...

The day up Montana Mountain with Bob was excellent – even the weather cooperated. I’ve only ever shown a handful of people I trust the campsite seen in the first photo below. This is probably the most pristine century-old campsite in the Yukon – almost everything is there, from...

Flying excites me – if I can’t be doing it, I want to be watching it. Whether it’s natural flight or technological flight is immaterial – the concept is the same to me, and the Yukon is a great place to watch both types. The photo above is a...

On Friday, the Association of Yukon Communities held their quarterly directors’ meeting in Mayo, way up in the central Yukon. Now you might think “how boring!” but it’s actually not – there is a lot going on and a lot of work being done to make life in the...

In replying to an email from Linda in Ontario a few minutes ago, I realized something that strikes me as important. Okay, important to me 🙂 There’s no such thing as a “former Yukoner” – some people can live here their whole lives and never become a Yukoner, but...

We went on a bit of a flood tour yesterday. We don’t have to go far, as the water level at Carcross has flooded several historic cabins and done a great deal of damage to the beach and the White Pass & Yukon Route rail line, but we drove...

Carcross is still my sanctuary if I just mind my own business. Even though Fall is in the air, we’re having beautiful weather for our 3-day Discovery Day weekend. On Saturday my son and his partner joined us for a particularly fine day, then yesterday Cathy and I disappeared...