Category: Dyea, Alaska

On April 11th, I drove to Skagway and Dyea with Bella and Tucker for the first time since January 5, 2020. Covid, of course, made drives to Skagway impossible for much of that 3 years. Although I was in Skagway last October, Cathy did most of the driving. I...

When we’re due for a big dog play-day and something a bit different, its hard to beat Dyea, so on April 28th we drove down for the day. We made a brief stop at Emerald Lake at 10:15 to get a photo as part of my records of when...

With sunshine forecast for both Whitehorse and Skagway, yesterday looked like a good day to make the 320-km (200-mi) drive. Cathy had bought a lot of linens at JC Penney’s last huge sale, and it was all waiting for me at the Skagway post office so I had to...

The vast, almost always empty beach at Dyea is one of my favourite places to go as Spring approaches. The real Spring, not the one of the calendar that bears no resemblance to the Northern one 🙂 On Wednesday, the dogs and I went down for the day, and...

We continue to have an extremely warm winter with little snow. To say that it’s been an easy winter so far is an understatement, despite a few days of deep cold that brought with it great photo ops 🙂 When I saw these forecasts yesterday, it looked like a...

On Saturday, Cathy and I took the dogs for a walk along the waterfront trail in Whitehorse. It seemed like a good idea, but with the kids on leashes and the trail very icy, it wasn’t much fun for anyone. So yesterday, I took Monty and Bella to Dyea...

This has felt like The Winter With No End – pretty well everyone’s been complaining about the weather the past couple of weeks in particular. Finally, though, Spring has arrived (and it looks like Summer is only days away). Last Tuesday, Cathy and I had to go to Carcross...

It’s that time of year when I love being able to drive to Spring. On Saturday, Cathy, Bobbie and I took advantage of a forecast sunny day to drive to Dyea, to get away from the snow for just a couple of hours. I always take far fewer pictures...

A weather forecast showing sunshine in Skagway was all the encouragement I needed to hit the road again yesterday – sunshine in Skagway in the winter doesn’t happen very often! The first photo was shot at 10:14, 15 minutes after sunrise, just north of Carcross, with the temperature at...

One of my nieces has just moved to Whitehorse, and yesterday we took her to see Skagway and Dyea. Despite a mediocre weather forecast, it turned out to be quite good, and it no doubt would have been a good day whatever the weather turned out to be. Our...