Category: Skagway, Alaska

One of my nieces has just moved to Whitehorse, and yesterday we took her to see Skagway and Dyea. Despite a mediocre weather forecast, it turned out to be quite good, and it no doubt would have been a good day whatever the weather turned out to be. Our...

Wow, it’s the 7th of January already! Times does fly when you’re having fun 🙂 We had a very quiet New Year’s Eve as usual. The City put on an excellent fireworks display at 9:00 pm, and I made it to 11:50 before going to bed. Cathy says that...

For the past 3 days, everyone in Whitehorse is talking about the weather. On Wednesday we got one of the wilder storms I’ve seen in my 22 years in the Yukon. This is what the deck looked like at 11:00 am on Wednesday – the Xmas decorations didn’t fare...

I decided on Wednesday that the weather forecast was good enough to drive to another season for the day – I’ve already had enough of Winter, and it was a fairly safe bet that Fall was only a couple of hours away. The cloud bank and morning light produced...

For the past 2 weeks I’ve been posting reports from the tour I’ve been driver/guide for, a trip from Whitehorse, Yukon to Seward, Alaska for Maher Tours of New Zealand. After leaving them at their cruise ship in Seward, I always do one more thing with my Maher groups...

I’m going to break into my series of posts about being a tourist in Whitehorse to tell you about our day sailing on HMCS Whitehorse out of Skagway yesterday. There was a single notice about this event in the newspaper a couple of weeks ago, and City Hall was...

The weather forecast for the next few days wasn’t great, so Friday seemed like the best day to go to Skagway. On the way down we stopped to see our cabin at Carcross and lucked into being on the deck there when the train to Skagway departed. The “must-do”...

It’s supposed to be Spring even in the Yukon, and we have had a few really nice days. Yesterday, however, Father Winter returned in a big way. The snow began at about 5:00 am and got quite heavy for a while. By 8:30 I’d seen all I could handle...

The cruise ship Disney Wonder made her maiden call at Skagway today. She’s the first Disney ship ever to sail on an Alaska itinerary, and many people in the industry have high hopes that with her comes a new niche cruising market, as Disney has many fans who will...

I hadn’t been down to Skagway since the 18th of December, and for weeks I’d been watching for the right combination of decent weather and a “free” day. There’s actually no such thing as a free day anymore, but a day with nothing really important to be done. I...