Category: Highway Lodges

As the shortest day of the year approaches, I’m having a bit of trouble with SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder). I have a therapy light that helps, but hitting the road is what makes my days good. Yesterday, I decided on the spur of the moment to go on an...

I love Dawson City, and have always said that if visitors don’t experience Dawson City they don’t really understand the Yukon. On tour, it’s a long day, driving 525 km (326 miles), with pleasant but not dramatic scenery. We got away from Whitehorse at about 09:30, made a stop...

After the spectacular weather we had yesterday, the cool-and-cloudy I got up to yesterday morning wasn’t a nice sight, but it was easy to see that it was much better weather for the long driving day ahead. We left the Westmark Whitehorse hotel at 09:00, made a short stop...

The weather forecast yesterday morning was good for that day but then we’re in for a long spell of cloudy, wet days so I decided to take the motorcycle east down the Alaska Highway for a few hours. The probable destination was Teslin, 163 kilometers (101 miles) from home....

Day 2 dawned wet. With the weather forecast suggesting that the rain would end in the morning I decided to take advantage of being in no hurry and wait it out, so I fueled up, went for a leisurely breakfast down the road at Buckshot Betty’s and wandered around...

I’ve been putting off any long trips on the motorcycle due to erratic forecasts and lots of rain activity, but decided on Tuesday that it was time to just get on and go. I decided that a 3-day trip up the Alaska and Taylor Highways to Chicken, Alaska and...

On Sunday, May 15th, 52-year-old Whitehorse resident Emile Aubichon was killed in a motorcycle crash on the North Klondike Highway (see the Yukon News article [archived by the Wayback Machine]). Last night a memorial ride was held to lay a wreath at the crash site. About 80 motorcycles turned...

As well as the article about Yukon bloggers (which I think was poorly executed) in yesterday’s Yukon News, there was an article about Yukon highway lodges being forced to close, supposedly because of the government’s new health regulations and the related costs of new septic systems. Bear Creek Lodge,...