Month: July 2009

Blend together: 31°C temperatures 31% humidity localized winds gusting to 90kmh Add lightning, with rain removed. Stand back – waaaaaay back. This is the recipe that’s being served up in the central and northern Yukon in the next few hours 🙁 Good luck to residents and firefighters!...

I’ve just lost a dear friend who has brought me armloads of joy for the past 7 years. He’s been fading for the past 3 weeks and this afternoon we discovered that he had an inoperable stomach tumor – he died on the operating table and my heart broke...

This is the most incredibly beautiful summer I’ve ever seen. Look at the weather forecast – it just keeps coming! 🙂 This photo was shot at the Bove Island viewpoint south of Carcross a couple of hours ago. Yes, that’s a 10 🙂...

A funeral was held in Whitehorse yesterday for Marty Dobbin, the Yukon’s Fire Marshal. It began with the air and land procession seen in the photos below. I didn’t know him, but the obituary at the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs site says: “Marty was the backbone of the...

The past few days, I keep meeting the Google camera car as it makes its circuits gathering photos for Google Earth’s Street Views. I saw it in Skagway on Tuesday and got the photo below as it was coming out of the Liarsville Road (okay, I missed part of...

As Steve and I were starting down the WP&YR tracks after taking the Bare Loon Lake cutoff trail from the Chilkoot Trail on Tuesday, we met an Aussie fellow on a Great Adventure. Dan Grec is a few weeks into a 50,000-km drive from the Arctic Ocean at Prudhoe...

Fairbanks now has an antique car museum. Not a few old wrecks in a warehouse but a fine collection of classics! The museum has been established by Fountainhead Hotels, and is on the grounds of their Wedgewood Resort. Have a look at the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum website for...

Cathy and I have made the difficult decision to sell the Carcross property. I truly loved living there and said many times that I’d never leave, but since moving to Mary Lake it just doesn’t get used. What we talk about in terms of recreation now involves seeing the...

Although there have been some worries, the Yukon has been exceptionally lucky this summer – lots of hot, sunny days with few forest fires. Only Dawson has significant fires burning – lightning has, I believe, caused all of them this year. See the Yukon Wildland Fire Management site for...

The weather forecast yesterday was mixed, with morning showers and clearing in the afternoon but we decided to make a drive down the Haines Highway. It’s the best place in the Yukon to see grizzlies, as well as going through spectacular scenery. We got off to a late start,...