Whitehorse, the Wilderness City: a Mt. McIntyre outing
Living in Whitehorse has a lot of pluses. Especially when you have secluded acreage 15 minutes from downtown. Not only do you have pretty well ever service you need close at hand, the wilderness is literally at your back door. On Saturday afternoon the Fall colours on Golden Horn...
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Century Flight 2010 in Whitehorse
For the past 3 days I’ve been surrounding myself with little airplanes. Whitehorse is currently hosting “Century Flight 2010”, the largest gathering of airplanes in the Yukon since Word War II. The is the 2nd event organized by John Lovelace, who for 10 years was host of the television...
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An evening walk at the Whitehorse airport
Cathy and I are fairly good about geting out for a walk with the dogs at least once a day. Just short ones, a loop around the property, but it’s something. When we lived in town we used to go to the airport for our walks quite often, and...
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Ear Lake – a Whitehorse gem lost
There used to be a little gem of a lake on the outskirts of Whitehorse. Easily accessible, Ear Lake had been a popular destination for almost 100 years – even poet Robert Service used to go there, and in a 1905 poem about the future of Whitehorse, he envisioned...
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Be part of a new Whitehorse sculpture
Do those of you in the Yukon have any smaller bits of metal that perhaps have an interesting history behind them that you wouldn’t mind donating for an art sculpture? Here’s the deal: “My name is Daphne Mennell and I have been recently awarded the commission for a metal...
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Granger (Whitehorse) home with rental suite for sale
We’ve put our rental house in Granger up for sale. It’s on a large, private treed lot, has been extensively renovated and has 2 bedrooms plus a den/bedroom upstairs (1,340 square feet) and 2 bedrooms downstairs (1,225 square feet). The asking price is $439,000. For more information, see this...
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Golden Horn – the extinct volcano in our back yard
Although I used the word “volcano” in the title, Golden Horn isn’t technically a volcano, as the lava that oozed out of it wasn’t an eruption. I fairly often post photos of Golden Horn as we see it from our property, but tonight I’d like to show you how...
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Enjoying the first day of Spring – in February!
What a day that was! While not quite suntanning weather yet, it felt like Spring. The temperature hit +1°C here in Mary Lake, and I saw +3 on a Whitehorse report. We started really noticing the change in the light about a week ago – this is when most...
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The slowing-changing face of Whitehorse
Whitehorse is a dramatically different community than it was when I arrived 20 years ago, but the changes have come fairly slowly. Yesterday I took an hour and recorded some of the little changes happening now. One of the larger construction projects is the new medical staff residence at...
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Dealing with the nastiest day of Winter
Some of you may have thought that I was just being negative with my post “Sucked in by the Weather Office Again?“. Well, the forecast that I was referring to called for temperatures of +5°C and showers for today. What we actually have is -25, high winds and heavy...
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