Category: Hiking

As I get older, the Yukon’s historic Venus silver mine (the primary subject of my first book) has become my fitness test. On Wednesday, I made my third attempt in a month to reach it. I made it. At 71, it was my slowest ever for the steep climb...

The drive down the South Klondike on May 17th whetted my appetite for more mountain time in a big way, so on the 19th I headed down the South Klondike Highway again, with a more ambitious plan. I left Bella and Tucker at home because although it was a...

Following up on a conversation with a friend about hiking to the Grey Mountain cave above Whitehorse when somebody who knows the way could take us, I decided on the spur of the moment this morning to go and find it myself. Vague directions resulted in me doing two...

Following up on a conversation with a friend about hiking to the Grey Mountain cave above Whitehorse when somebody who knows the way could take us, I decided on the spur of the moment this morning to go and find it myself. Vague directions resulted in me doing two...

The number of historic mining sites in the Whitehorse Copper Belt is quite astonishing when you have a guide like Tim Green who is a fount of knowledge about it, and loves sharing what he has discovered. On Sunday we spent 4 hours in a very small part of...

I took Bella and Tucker for a walk at the Lewes River Dam on July 31st, and was very pleased to see that the water level had dropped well over a foot. Though flooding is still extensive, the government greatly reduced the areas under evacuation alerts yesterday, and after...

Tuesday, July 27th, our second full day in Vancouver, was a recovery day for Cathy. I stayed with her until early afternoon, then went on an 11-km walk to see a part of Stanley Park I’d never seen in the 40 years I lived in the Vancouver area. Most...

On the afternoon of Saturday, July 17th, our third day in the White Pass, I took Tucker on a big hike up what I call Border Ridge. It doesn’t have a name and pretty much nobody else goes there so I get to call it whatever I want 🙂...

We finally got away in the motorhome for a few days last week (we left home on Thursday, July 15th). It was just to the White Pass, but it was wonderful to get back into the mountains. Getting the rig ready to go was a long slow process –...

With a 90-minute hike up Summit Creek having gone well last Tuesday, I decided to give a more challenging hike a try the next day. The area I’ve come to call Border Ridge has no trail and rarely sees hikers. It’s high alpine – a land of bare granite,...