Category: Waterfalls

An hour after getting home from my 12-hour, 538-kilometer aurora-viewing drive to Kluane Lake, I was back on the road to Skagway. I had an exciting eBay win to pick up at the post office, and hey, it was sunny – what more reason do I need? 🙂 Starting...

The last-minute decision to make the fairly long detour to Wells Gray Provincial Park resulted in one of the most memorable 24 hours of the trip. Established on November 28, 1939, the 541,516 hectare (1,338,115 acre) park offers superb opportunities to see spectacular canyons and waterfalls as well as...

Yesterday was my last full free day to explore from Hinton, so I decided to get away early (well before 09:00) and see what else I could find around Jasper. I’m finally confident in my identification of this mountain as Roche à Perdrix, which is 2,135 meters (7,005 feet)...

This is Part 2 of a post about a day trip to Jasper that turned out exceptionally well. I reached the top of Maligne Canyon at 2:20 pm, but I’d been here before probably 30 years ago and figured that an hour would be lots of time to see...

Yesterday was intended as a motorcycle day – a ride to Skagway and back – but turned into much more, with an almost-6-hour hike past countless waterfalls and ending overlooking the Chilkoot Trail at a wall of glaciers across the valley. By 08:45 I was all armoured up and...

With gorgeous weather forecast, Saturday (September 22nd) was another South Klondike Highway exploring/photograph day. But this time I had lots of company – Cathy, my niece Bobbie, and 2 enthusiastic huskies 🙂 Our first stop was going to be at the silver-mining ghost town of Conrad, but even at...

I’m back on the road again, this time as Group Leader for a 15-day tour of the Yukon and Alaska for a company newly returned to the region, Road Scholar. I worked for them many years ago when they came north as ElderHostel, and it’s great to see them...

Next Tuesday I’m picking up a group from New Zealand to start a 12-day tour from Whitehorse to Seward, and I’m a bit manic right now. I use any excuse to get out of the office if the weather is even half decent, and both Thursday and Friday I...

The gravel/dirt Aishihik Road runs north from Historic Mile 995 on the Alaska Highway. It takes adventurers to Otter Falls, most famous for being featured on the 1954 series of Canada’s $5 banknote, on to Aishihik Lake and ends after about 120 km at Aishihik village, a seasonal Native...

This is the 3rd and final installment of my Ontario travelogue, taking us from Toronto to Niagara Falls, back to London and finally home to Whitehorse. In the Yukon you drive for hours to get to the next town or attraction, but in Ontario there are towns everywhere and...