Category: Hiking

I needed to go into town yesterday to pick up a couple of things, so took my hiking and camera gear with the idea of putting about 4 km on, though I didn’t have a plan for where that might happen. Nothing inspired me and I was on my...

I’m writing this post because it’s quite different than the Venus Mine hike on May 15th. First, I took another person, but we also climbed all the way up to the upper level and adit, which is mostly what I want to show you. After seeing my post about...

The Venus Mine has become not just an awesome destination for a hike, but also a test for me to assess how I’m doing. Being able to reach the mine is always extremely gratifying, and I was about 65 years old when I recognized it as something to celebrate...

While scanning old papers yesterday, I came across a fairly detailed report on a hike I did at Anchorage in August 1990. The Wolverine Peak Trail remains one of the finest day-hikes I’ve ever done, so I thought I’d share a few of the Kodachromes I shot. There are...

The prompt for this post was yesterday’s short but perfect hike on the Hospital Ridge trail in downtown Whitehorse after doing some errands in town, but while I’m here I’ll show a bit of the other things going on in my world. The main thing is that Spring finally...

On Monday, September 1st, we took the motorhome to the White Pass, and this is the second post from that trip. My day started early as usual, but this time I was on the road, to get some photos at the Canada-USA border while the highway was still closed...

We’ve been having incredible weather to end the summer, and I’ve been trying to get out as much as possible. On Monday, September 1st, we took the motorhome to the White Pass, and got home last night. I got one good night of aurora, two excellent hikes on the...

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 is blog post #28 from our tour of northern Europe. On Friday, July 25th, we spent the day at sea, and on Saturday the 26th we docked at Dover with big plans for our final port day of the 28-cruise on the Nieuw Statendam. My sea day began...

This is blog post #26 from our tour of northern Europe. On Wednesday, July 23rd, after spending the previous day at sea, sailing from Iceland, we docked at Runavik. We had no plans and as it turned out, didn’t do much, though I walked 5.6 km. Sea days are...