Category: South Klondike Highway

Photography is a state of mind to some degree – the more I shoot one day (like yesterday), the more I shoot the next time, and I start to see things differently. I get back to really seeing what’s around me. I had to go to Carcross today to...

Today began very, very early. The aurora borealis forecast was for a Level 4 display, which is very good, so I got out of bed at 01:30, and even though there were no Northern Lights yet, got my gear packed and headed out. The first auroral glow began as...

We have a long list of projects that need to be taken care, but with this amazing weather, we’re mostly just goofing off for the 4-day weekend instead 🙂 Yesterday, we went on a swan hunt and ended up in Dyea. We drove the Tagish loop to go by...

What a day this was! Although I haven’t heard official confirmation, my guess is that we broke the all-time high temperature record for this date today, and by Monday night the entire weekend will set a record. The record high was in 1966 at 9.4°C, while the record low...

Yesterday was a marathon day of photography. I left the house at 3:30am to shoot the Northern Lights, and didn’t get home until 5:30pm. The result was over 300 photos of a wide variety of subjects from the area bordered by Mary Lake, Jake’s Corner and Skagway. Here’s a...

One of the questions that comes up fairly regularly on Alaska cruise Forums is whether or not the wonderful colours of Emerald Lake are visible early in the season. Often the answers given are wrong, so I’m posting these photographs as an answer, as I know that many members...

The weather forecast for Tuesday was only fair for a mountain road trip, but I had a few things sitting at the Skagway post office that I had to get, so it would have to do. Stopping for the first photo of the day, I discovered that I had...

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...