Category: South Klondike Highway

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...