Category: Hiking

Cathy has been wanting to get back to Haines for a long time, so a couple of weeks ago made a reservation at the Oceanside RV Park. I arranged for a Haines friend to meet me at the Haines Summit for a hike the day before that reservation started,...

When I spent a day on Little Atlin Lake on July 10th, we were at the foot of White Mountain, and it occurred to me that for some reason I had never hiked the trail that climbs it. On Tuesday, August 6th, I rectified that – well, mostly. When...

For me, one of the best features of Conrad Campground is the trails. My longest single hike on our July 10-14 visit was 4.34 km, but on other hikes I used some sections of trails not covered on that one. The major trails can be seen on the map...

Conrad Campground has 6 walk-in tenting sites isolated by a substantial distance from the main part of the campground. They sites can be seen toward the centre left of the map below. There are walk-in tenting sites at 13 other campgrounds but none are as large and isolated as...

This post is actually about two visits to Conrad Campground with the motorhome. The first one, on July 4th-5th, only lasted one night due to a major electrical problem. With that fixed, the second one was from July 10th through the 14th. On our first visit, our first RV...

Yesterday, June 20th, was World Naked Hiking Day, one of the two big annual events for nudists and naturists. It’s actually held on the Summer Solstice, which is usually June 21st, but this year Solstice is early. The other big nudist/naturist event is World Naked Gardening Day, but it’s...

It’s hard to say what started this, but I noted yesterday that I had shot a dozen photos of Whitehorse from the top of the clay cliffs – part of the airport trail network – on May 14, 2000. I posted two of the ones that show the most...

On Wednesday (May 1st), I finally made it to what had been my planned destination, the trail to the Venus mine, a few minutes before 1 pm. Then I immediately changed my plan again – there was a vehicle there. So I drove back a few hundred meters to...

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...

My focus recently has switched back to scanning my files. While doing that a couple of days ago, I found some hike reports from 1993-1995, written as I was researching the historic mines on Montana Mountain for my first book, “Fractured Veins & Broken Dreams.” I carried a notebook,...