Category: Cabin Life

Early Spring, when Yukoners and Alaskans try to blow the winter cobwebs out of their brains. It looks like everyone is on the road this weekend. On Friday we went to Carcross and I dug my way into the long-neglected cabin through thigh-deep snow. It felt great to sit...

We’ve found the practical limits of using the wood furnace as our sole heat source for the house. It’s -38°C this morning (that’s -36.4°F), and we had to turn on the oil furnace to get comfortable. That’s about the limit for the cabin as well – which is a...

My poor little cabin needed some attention, and the sunshine forecast for today tipped the scale in favour of going to Carcross instead of the kitchen job. The driveway wasn’t as bad as I was afraid it would be, but it will take a lot of work to get...

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...

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

We’re at the cabin for 2 weeks, but spent Tuesday night in the city. That night, a grizzly raided the place – bit through and crushed a garbage can, tore my main bird feeder off the wall beside the kitchen window, then went next door and damaged a storage...

I’m getting soft. Too much time in Whitehorse with a well-insulated house, propane heat and a cozy spa-for-2 will do that, I suppose. Our 6 Northstay guests arrive from Nova Scotia tomorrow, so all the furkids and I are at the cabin and Cathy is in Ontario visiting family...

Many of you seem to know that the CarcrossCam has been offline since December 22nd. Illness combined with the fact that the CPU that runs it shuts down every now and then, possibly due to power issues, and then the Computer Gremlin visited with one of his Blue Screens...