Category: Whitehorse

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...

There’s a conference coming up in Whitehorse in April 2010 that I want to tell you about. The Yukon Wholistic Health Network is bringing Dr. Gabor Maté in to present a series of talks and workshops based on his best-selling book When The Body Says No: The Cost of...

It is soooo beautiful right now – the temperature is still not bad, hanging around -20°C (-4°F), and the sunshine and thick frost are distractingly pretty. Yesterday I went exploring for a bit. I had to meet a Web site client out to the west just before sunrise, and...

I seldom go anywhere without my camera, and yesterday was a good example of why. Cathy and I just had to run into Whitehorse to run a few errands – I’d forgotten my camera but Cathy grabbed it on the way out the door. As soon as we got...

Yesterday was one of the days that make me think that winter isn’t so bad after all. It was flat out gorgeous. I started the day out in the hot tub, mesmerized by the beauty of the snowy forest bathed in the light of a full moon. The first...

As of last night I’m in Kelowna for a week visiting family. It’s nowhere near as warm as I’d hoped, but it is sunny – and the Fall Wine Festival is on 🙂 This is what my driveway looked like yesterday as I was getting ready to leave. In...

The past few days there’s been a corporate jet parked at YXY of a type I didn’t recognize, so this afternoon I finally took a few minutes and stopped for a good look. The Mexican-registered beauty, XB-RSH, is a 1980 Rockwell NA-265-65 Sabreliner. The really cool thing about the...

I was working at the cruise office in Whitehorse yesterday and during my 15-minute commute back to Mary Lake got a bit distracted by some photo ops. That made me think about the difference between a Whitehorse commute and what it’s like in some other places. In the Fall...

Well, the first photo below was shot on Friday, the one below it was shot from the same location (the Canada Games Centre) an hour ago. The road running from side to side is the Alaska Highway (Alaska is to the left), downtown Whitehorse is ahead and to the...

Our good luck couldn’t last – I’m amazed that it lasted as long as it did. The negative side to the hot, dry summers I love is that the forests go up in flames. The Yukon, Alaska and British Columbia are all covered in smoke now. Until yesterday, we’d...