Category: Weather

I needed some excitement yesterday, and the weather forecast for the South Klondike Highway called for snow and wind, so I figured I’d go down to do some extreme-weather photography. My daughter posted on my Facebook page last night: “Only you would take off down the highway HOPING for...

I’ve been quiet here for almost 2 weeks as I try to get back to reality after our trip to Europe. It’s actually been snowing for almost 6 weeks here now, almost daily recently, so moving snow takes up a fair bit of time. The title of this post...

On Tuesday evening I decided that despite the nasty weather we’ve been having, it was time to get the motorcycle out for a long ride. I’d seen a fellow dragging a huge wooden cross down the Alaska Highway that afternoon so figured I’d see if I could find him...

Driving to Skagway may be one of my procrastination techniques, but it’s a particularly good one 🙂 On Friday I made the drive despite a mediocre weather report, and it turned out to be an excellent day. I was on the road just before 9:30, and 20 minutes later...

Photography is a state of mind to some degree – the more I shoot one day (like yesterday), the more I shoot the next time, and I start to see things differently. I get back to really seeing what’s around me. I had to go to Carcross today to...

What a day this was! Although I haven’t heard official confirmation, my guess is that we broke the all-time high temperature record for this date today, and by Monday night the entire weekend will set a record. The record high was in 1966 at 9.4°C, while the record low...

Spring in the Yukon – this is the time of year that I get anxious for the snow to be gone, and I put a lot of effort into making it disappear from places that I want to dry out and/or turn green as soon as possible. Three weeks...

The weather forecast for Tuesday was only fair for a mountain road trip, but I had a few things sitting at the Skagway post office that I had to get, so it would have to do. Stopping for the first photo of the day, I discovered that I had...

I find life at 40 below zero to be quite invigorating and even exciting, and though it’s a bit of a challenge, I love photography at those temps. If there’s ever any doubt that the Yukon remains a unique place to live, a few days of minus 40 will...

Wow, it’s the 7th of January already! Times does fly when you’re having fun 🙂 We had a very quiet New Year’s Eve as usual. The City put on an excellent fireworks display at 9:00 pm, and I made it to 11:50 before going to bed. Cathy says that...