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After a crazy day in Vancouver on Wednesday (April 15th), Thursday and Friday were relatively quiet. Cathy and I went for a walk to Stanley Park on Thursday afternoon, I went for another early-morning walk on Friday, then at noon on Friday we started for home. Thursday began with...

I really got carried away with this post – it has 66 photos and 1,972 words, and took me two days to write, but it was a crazy day. I had taken my new “travel” laptop with the intention of writing briefer-than-usual posts each day, then just couldn’t do...

Cathy and I flew to Vancouver on Tuesday, April 14th, and returned home on Friday the 17th. After a brutal winter of record-breaking cold and then snow, it was wonderful. It began as a medical trip – a 6-month post-surgery checkup for me – but we added an extra...

On March 22nd, a couple of hours after the sun rose, I posted the first photo below on Facebook with the comment “There’s a little Boreal owl asleep in my bird feeder! This is a first.” The owl has now spent many days with us and this afternoon (April...

As our very hard winter continues, my need for a proper day in the mountains is getting stronger. Ten days ago I headed south on a day that had potential, but the weather went sour in a major way just south of Log Cabin. This was the final photo...

This week, Whitehorse was part of an historic event for the Indonesian Air Force – we were one of the stops on the delivery flight of their second new Airbus A400M Atlas aircraft, tail number A-4002, serial number 150. Two A400Ms were ordered by Indonesia in 2021, but last...

I needed to get away from the computer and snow shovels yesterday, and on the spur of the moment decided that a drive to Kluane Lake – a 500-km round trip – would be a good way to do that (see a map of the route). I see in...

I had been watching the weather forecasts and road reports for many weeks, looking for a good day to get into the mountains, and it finally came together yesterday (Saturday, January 24). The weather forecasts called from sun in both Whitehorse and Skagway, with highs of -17°C and -1°C...

It’s now been over 5 weeks since I last posted. After being very pleased with how easy the winter had been up until early December, a difficult winter pretty much took over my life since my last post on December 22nd. First we had a long spell of deep...

This post was spurred by Facebook Memories, which yesterday morning showed that I go out for Winter Solstice drives often, sometimes as far as the White Pass or Kluane Lake. With the temperature sitting at -38°C, I wasn’t going to do a long drive, but the city offers great...