Category: Canoeing & Boating

This post covers our last two full days on the river – Tuesday, August 19th and Wednesday, August 20th – with a bit about the drive home on the 21st. To start this day, the lovely little valley of Sparkling Creek, at about 11:00. We met two guys in...

We landed at Fort Selkirk at 3:30 Sunday, August 17th, Day 7 of the trip. Our plan was simply to see a bit of the community, then continue on our journey down the river. The first photo shows the view downriver, to the northwest. The campground is beautiful –...

This post begins as we departed from Carmacks on Saturday morning, August 16th (Day 6 of the trip) and ends as we arrived at Fort Selkirk in the afternoon of Sunday, August 17th. I thought I was going to be able to tell this story with four posts, but...

This post covers our journey starting below Shipyard Island at about 1:00 pm on Thursday, August 14th (Day 4 of the trip), and ending as we were leaving Carmacks on the morning of Saturday, August 16th (Day 6). The first photo was taken about 10 minutes after leaving Shipyard...

This post begins on the afternoon of Day 3 – Wednesday, August 13th – as we started paddling down the Thirty Mile section of the Yukon River, from the foot of Lake Laberge north. The Thirty Mile was designated a Canadian Heritage River in 1991 for its outstanding natural,...

On Monday, August 11th, my son and I launched my canoe on the Yukon River at Rotary Park in downtown Whitehorse, and on August 21st we reached Dawson. Just before 10:00 am we met Cathy, who had driven down from Whitehorse the previous day. This post covers the first...

This post is something of an experiment. Due to my brain injury, I have no memory of this significant adventure of my youth, only photos. My final neurologist said 2-3 years ago that the memories are still here, I just can’t access them. Sometimes various things will trigger a...

Pretty much ever since I started driving the South Klondike Highway between Whitehorse and Skagway in 1990, a particular valley to the east of Summit Lake near the White Pass summit has intrigued me. Clearly carved out by a massive glacier, spectacular peaks loom behind a series of waterfalls....

In the afternoon of July 3, my friend Greg from Haines arrived at my home, and we took the motorhome to the White Pass for a 4-night stay so we could go canoeing and hiking. On our first outing on July 4th, we canoed to the head of Summit...

Once I reach Smithers, I always feel like I’m almost home. With the right motivation, I could make that drive in one day. I was going to spend 2, possibly 3, more nights on the road, though. On Day 56 of the trip – Wednesday, June 20th – I...