Category: South Klondike Highway

Yesterday was road trip day. Only a little road trip to Skagway to pick up a bunch of gear for the trip, but it was one of those severe, dramatic days that I love. It was -38°C (-36°F) when I left Mary Lake, and -16°C (+4°°F) when I reached...

This morning started out cold and colourless – very much a black-and-white world – and I expected few or no photo ops on my trip to Carcross and back. As you’ll see below, though, the camera did come out of the bag. The first shot was taken just north...

On Boxing Day, Cathy and I went out looking for deals in Whitehorse. The only deal we found was at Staples, where you could get Norton Antivirus for $10 – there was an unstated catch that you could only get the $25 rebate on 1 copy, though, so I...

Despite having little daylight, I find that I still do a fair bit of photography this time of year because of the quality of the light we do get, and I don’t go anywhere without my camera gear (even into Whitehorse to do some shopping). Going to the cabin...

This morning, I again awoke to fairly heavy snow falling. That makes yesterday’s sunshine even more special – it prompted another trip to Skagway, and it turned out to be a superb day. The light was spectacular, and there were enough clouds to provide a lot of drama through...

We went on a bit of a flood tour yesterday. We don’t have to go far, as the water level at Carcross has flooded several historic cabins and done a great deal of damage to the beach and the White Pass & Yukon Route rail line, but we drove...

The “Welcome to Yukon” sign on the South Klondike Highway was taken down a couple of weeks ago for renovation. I assumed that the renovation would largely entail changing the slogan from “Canada’s True North” (which I found offensive) to “Larger Than Life”. But it went back up on...

Seeing wildlife up close is an event that I always consider a gift. Every now and then one of those gifts is so special that I don’t even have proper words to describe what it means to me. Two years ago, it was a wolf family in Denali Park....

My normal mail pickup is just a short walk to the tiny historic post office in Carcross. For several years now, though, I’ve also had a PO box in Skagway, Alaska. The justification for driving 67 miles one-way to pick up some of my mail is easy – I...

I suppose commuting is one of those things that the average person in North America just has to tolerate in order to make a decent living. For a while yet, driving beween Carcross and Whitehorse is part of my life for that reason – Whitehorse is where an important...