Category: Carcross

June 29 was an amazing day, riding behind the White Pass & Yukon Route’s beloved 1947 Baldwin steam locomotive #73 to Bennett and back. I’m still not clear on how this all played out, but 9 days prior I had received an email from a friend at the WP&YR,...

I’ve been watching the weather forecasts to make another try to get to Skagway, and yesterday, though not great, was the best day in Skagway for 10 days or so, and was forecast to get as the day progressed. in both Skagway and Whitehorse. The day turned out to...

On August 26 I drove to Carcross for an event arranged by COPA (the Canadian Owner and Pilots Association, Yukon Flight 106) and the Klondike Cruisers car club. For the Cruisers, there was a poker run which started at the Yukon Transportation Museum, with numerous stops on the way...

On Thursday (May 25th), I took the V-Star out for a wander, and it turned out to be an excellent day, despite the last hour of the 6-hour outing being in the rain. My day’s activities actually began at the Whitehorse airport. On Wednesday evening I had gone there...

As is often the case, the southern Yukon has had a dramatic heating-up the past week or so. May is probably the month with the most extreme shifts in average weather during the month. The temperature in Whitehorse officially reached 25.6°C on Thursday, May 18, demolishing the old record...

Spring hasn’t actually arrived yet – even the 14-day forecast calls for temperatures to remain well below seasonal norms. Given our above-normal snow load, the slow melt is very good news for all the people who have been flooded or threatened by floods the past two years. But yesterday...

Although Winter is far from over in the Yukon, there’s a change in the air, and a bit of sunshine yesterday prompted a drive south into the mountains I love. I went as far as Fraser, which is the furthest I’ve driven in a very long time. Within about...

Yesterday I took a drive around the Tagish-Carcross loop to have a look at the rapidly rising waters in what we call the Southern Lakes – the headwaters of the Yukon River. A perfect storm has set the stage for the worst flooding ever seen in the region. As...

On Monday, April 19th, I got a call from friends asking if I’d like to join them for a swan hunt. I sure would! I’m doing two blog posts about this outing because the Carcross and Tagish parts of it were quite different and each has enough photos to...

It’s now been 7 weeks since I’ve posted here – the longest break since I started the blog in 2007. This post will sort of be in two parts. The first will be the sort of thing you expect here – a photojournal of one of my wanders. The...