Category: Weather

The prompt for this post was yesterday’s short but perfect hike on the Hospital Ridge trail in downtown Whitehorse after doing some errands in town, but while I’m here I’ll show a bit of the other things going on in my world. The main thing is that Spring finally...

I had been watching the weather forecasts and road reports for many weeks, looking for a good day to get into the mountains, and it finally came together yesterday (Saturday, January 24). The weather forecasts called from sun in both Whitehorse and Skagway, with highs of -17°C and -1°C...

It’s now been over 5 weeks since I last posted. After being very pleased with how easy the winter had been up until early December, a difficult winter pretty much took over my life since my last post on December 22nd. First we had a long spell of deep...

This post was spurred by Facebook Memories, which yesterday morning showed that I go out for Winter Solstice drives often, sometimes as far as the White Pass or Kluane Lake. With the temperature sitting at -38°C, I wasn’t going to do a long drive, but the city offers great...

This post is about a 3-hour wander on Thursday, December 11th, but there was a build-up to it. Two days before that, I had driven into Whitehorse to see if there were any good ice fog photos available yet, with the temperature at -28°C/-18°F. I shot the two photos...

This post covers our last two full days on the river – Tuesday, August 19th and Wednesday, August 20th – with a bit about the drive home on the 21st. To start this day, the lovely little valley of Sparkling Creek, at about 11:00. We met two guys in...

This post was written this morning for my page at The Outbound Collective, but I decided to post it here instead. The writing is a bit different than my normal because it’s written for people who know nothing about the Yukon – the articles are meant as a “first...

A wonderful spell of warm weather has prompted me to get out a fair bit. I wanted to do two road trips – one to the White Pass and one to see the new bridge being built at Teslin. A storm warning about a system moving in with heavy...

I haven’t been getting out much this winter, but the past few days I’ve finally pulled myself away from my desk and got out a few times. Nothing very exciting, but here’s a bit of what the Whitehorse area looks like in January. It’s been a very strange winter...

I started by titling this post “Running errands at 40 below” then decided that normal terminology here might make no sense to people in other places 🙂 Anyway, with the temperature right at -40°C (which is also -40°F), I needed to go into Whitehorse this morning because I offered...