Category: Hiking

This is blog post #21 from our tour of northern Europe. On Tuesday, July 15th, we were offshore from Paamiut, Greenland, having arrived the previous night. We would tender ashore after breakfast. Cathy and I planned to look around the community for as long as she wanted, then I...

This walk a week ago (June 12th) started off to be a look at a short trail I know (the East Airport Access Road Trail), that had just been re-opened, then the planned walk turned into more. Much more! There are 83 photos in this post, my longest ever...

Today’s post covers two explorations of the Stony Creek Trail, located 61 km west of the Whitehorse airport. The first, on May 9th, was a hike with my friend Kevin, his dog Carbon, and Tucker. We hiked 8.2 km – I had to quit, but that was my longest...

I’ve been busy during the past 3 weeks, but it didn’t feel like anything was worth a blog post. On May 14th, though, my friend Kevin and I went looking for some trails that we only had hints about. This view of Montana Mountain on the drive south made...

I normally limit my visits with family to 3 days, but this time I went for 5, and it worked out very well. I spent a lot of time exploring the nearby Carburn Park and Bow River Trail, and walked almost 20 km there. I was amazed by how...

A friend posted a meme on Facebook yesterday morning that got me thinking (thanks, Sue!). It said “Turn off the news. Go outside. Breathe. We were not meant to carry the burden of the entire world.” I’ve been doing quite well in moving away from the nastiness of politics,...

Last September I posted an article about “Paddling BC’s Bowron Lakes circuit in 1968,” a trip that I have many photos of but no memory of. That was an enjoyable way to recreate a significant adventure and it brought back some tiny fragments of memories of the trip. This...

It’s been many years since I’ve posted a product review. I get occasional requests by manufacturers to review various products but none have caught my attention since I did a couple of motorcycle jackets in 2014 and 2015. I’ve always been curious about high-end hiking pants, though, so when...

My project yesterday (February 27th) was to document the entire Waterfront Trail, to show people what it looks like as a reply to some online complaints about how the new buildings in Whitehorse have ruined the views of the river we used to have. In actual fact, we now...

This post was written this morning for my page at The Outbound Collective, but I decided to post it here instead. The writing is a bit different than my normal because it’s written for people who know nothing about the Yukon – the articles are meant as a “first...