Month: September 2007

High country ‘Horse – Mt. McIntyre

Today may well have been the last warmish day for a very long time, and it was a great day to get into the high country above Whitehorse again. Mount McIntyre was today’s destination – with a side trip down to Fish Lake afterward, the whole adventure only took...
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Magic & mystery, or homogeny?

This was the Red Feather Saloon as I saw it for the first time, on June 20, 1985. This is one of the images from that trip, a whirlwind tour of the Yukon and adjacent areas by small plane, that I love the most – it reminds me of...
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Life is a Journey…

…and being a tour/charter bus driver took that journey down some very interesting roads for 17 years until I retired from it last year. One of the roads I’ve never tired of is the North Klondike Highway to Dawson City. The photo below was taken from my room at...
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Changing seasons, changing priorities

My good canoe, the Wenonah-Jensen, is now hanging from the ceiling in the Whitehorse garage, while the poor, heavy old Coleman sits on the beach waiting to be covered by snow. Between travel, poor weather and high water that eliminated the beaches on Lake Bennett, neither canoe got wet...
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Books as an investment

My first book, Fractured Veins & Broken Dreams, has been out of print for about 3 years now. Occasionally a copy appears in the collector market, but even that’s dried up in the past years or so. I got an email this afternoon that a dealer in Florida has...
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The Carcross footbridge is open!

The deck was finished on Thursday, the final cleanup was done yesterday and the crews will be heading south in a couple of days – Carcross has a beautiful new footbridge across the Nares River! You can see a large photo album of the history and progress of the...
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