Category: History

As we were descending into Whitehorse on our Air North flight last Wednesday, I could see that much of the flooding that stopped me on my e-bike ride on June 10th had receded, so I decided to give it another try on July 30th. I’m using 2 apps on...

In my wanders around Vancouver last week, I came across a memorial to the victims of the Indian residential school system. It was initially created by First Nations artist Tamara Bell with 215 pairs of children’s shoes (see this CTV article), but it appears to have become less an...

On Sunday (June 13th), I decided to try a road/trail that has intrigued me for many years. I knew it wouldn’t be an easy ride, but it was tougher than I expected. In a total time of 3 hours, 19 minutes, I rode 33.7 km (20.9 mi), and climbed...

Yesterday, I tried to get to the Cowley Lakes for the third time in a month, but after a lot of mud and water got stopped by a lengthy stretch of thigh-deep water on the trail. It ended up as a 34-km ride, on the WWII Canol pipeline road,...

Yesterday, I went out on a major exploration again, on the route I started to ride on May 13th, along the WWII Canol pipeline road. My goal was again to reach the Cowley Lakes where the White Pass & Yukon Route rail line crosses them. Cathy joined me this...

Having gotten comfortable with my new e-bike on paved roads, I’ve been anxious to get it out on some of the backroads and trails I bought it for. Although there is still a lot of snow in my yard, I decided on Thursday to give a historic road right...

As the weather gets warmer and the snow keeps falling, I have a whole lot of projects going on. The rebuild of my blog is coming along well – I have 179 posted so far. This is post number 1,229 since I started the blog on April 25, 2006,...

This post has been sitting in my “to-do” file for a few months, but it was such a fun afternoon I couldn’t just delete it. The outing happened on October 15, 2020, but I’m just posting it on February 10, 2021. A friend and I headed east on the...

Having re-visited the long-unused WP&YR railway line at the south end of Mary Lake 10 days ago, I decided yesterday to walk the rest of the line along the lake....

Each Fall, I get a bit manic trying to do a million more things before the snows flies and the cold sets in. This year I may be even worse because of the combination of really poor weather for most of the summer, and being physically and mentally unable...