Category: Alaska Highway

It is soooo beautiful right now – the temperature is still not bad, hanging around -20°C (-4°F), and the sunshine and thick frost are distractingly pretty. Yesterday I went exploring for a bit. I had to meet a Web site client out to the west just before sunrise, and...

We were away from Dease Lake this morning by 07:30 – though the “Open” sign was out at the only restaurant in town, the doors were locked and the next one was 3 hours away so coffee from the gas station had to suffice. The first photo shows the...

Just a short note from back on the Alaska Highway this morning before I head back into the rocks, bound for Revelstoke. Many people researching their drive to the Yukon and Alaska hear about the lack of traffic on the road, but what exactly does that mean? Here’s the...

I’m in Jasper, about to get ready to leave for Calgary, via the Icefields Parkway. This is a bit of a detour but I haven’t been on the Parkway in over 30 years, so it’s time for a look-see. Yesterday was a long day and I arrived here exhausted...

I’m currently in a hotel at Mile 300 of the Alaska Highway (Fort Nelson, BC). I had hoped to reach Fort St. John but got slowed down by seeing about a million animals up close today – bears, moose, caribou, Rocky Mountain sheep, bison, even a bald eagle feeding...

You would think that Yukoners would know how to drive on icy roads, wouldn’t you? The roads are extra-icy right now, and the number of vehicles off in the bush is amazing – people who were just driving too fast. Usually accidents here are single-car because there are few...

Sorry, the reds, yellows and oranges you were hoping for dropped onto the ground many weeks ago. The photo below was shot on the way home from Whitehorse at noon today. The colours of Fall are now black and white. I fired up my SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) therapy...

Yesterday was a gorgeous day to get out, and it looked like pretty much every Yukoner had the same idea. Our reasonably warm, sunny days are about to end, and traffic was quite heavy on the Alaska Highway – by our standards that means that there were occasionally 6...

As colourful as our property is right now, yesterday was a good opportunity for a Fall Colours Tour. We decided to head west along the Alaska Highway for a change, and Burwash Landing would make a good turn-around location. It was a long day – we put just over...