Category: South Klondike Highway

I sorta got sucked in by the weather offices yesterday, but I suppose it’s okay because I really needed to hit the road for a day. The weather forecasts for both Whitehorse and Skagway were for mostly sun, clouding up in Whitehorse in the afternoon. As it turned out,...

I try to get down to Skagway to see the last ships each year, and yesterday turned out to be an excellent one. Lousy weather (as expected), excellent day. I always wonder whether people know the kind of weather to expect when they book these very late (or very...

It’s that time of year when moose mate. Today I got incredibly lucky and witnessed part of a mating dance at Tutshi Lake. I first saw this bull on the sand bar at the south end of the lake, at the mouth of the Tutshi River. He was just...

Cathy and I had planned on working on the house yesterday. No really, we had 🙂 , even though it was a beautiful morning. But then I got an email from the WP&YR railfan discussion list [now gone] that I belong to, saying that there was going to be...

…and I just couldn’t resist going to Skagway today. There were 4 large ships scheduled, so this was probably the last opportunity to see Skagway crazy-busy in the sunshine this year. The timing was perfect to catch one of Spirit Lake Lodge’s trail rides crossing the South Klondike Highway....

This is the most incredibly beautiful summer I’ve ever seen. Look at the weather forecast – it just keeps coming! 🙂 This photo was shot at the Bove Island viewpoint south of Carcross a couple of hours ago. Yes, that’s a 10 🙂...

Back in the mid-1990s when I was researching the history of the mines around Carcross, I knew of the existence of a cabin that was built high above Windy Arm in 1901, but in my dozens of exploratory hikes I never did get to that site. Over the years...

On a scale of 1 to 10, today rated 11 – it was incredible. The temperature hit the high 20s C (low 80s F), and there were no clouds, no bugs and no wind. This is the day I’ll dream about in the middle of our next winter –...

Early Spring, when Yukoners and Alaskans try to blow the winter cobwebs out of their brains. It looks like everyone is on the road this weekend. On Friday we went to Carcross and I dug my way into the long-neglected cabin through thigh-deep snow. It felt great to sit...

When I woke up yesterday morning it was -26°C here! (that’s -15°F). The weather forecast showed 42F and mostly sunny for Skagway, so when my buddy Rob phoned, he and I quickly decided that heading south to Alaska was a better idea than working 🙂 For the first 70...