Category: Whitehorse

This time of year, I start digging through the snow looking for Spring. Well actually I go looking for bare ground – the sun now has enough heat to warm the ground and get things dried out and growing weeks earlier than if I let Mother Nature do her...

Although Cathy and I are well aware that there is a lot going on in Whitehorse at any given time, we just don’t get out much, though we regret not doing so. One of the first things that impresses people about Whitehorse is the number of artists here and...

Those of you who drive up 2nd Avenue in Whitehorse may have been wondering what’s going on behind Erik’s Audiotronic. Well, this is going to be the home of a new company in town – one in a field that may surprise many of you. Although tourism in general...

The white crap just keeps falling. I’ve never seen the likes of this in the Yukon – we just don’t normally get a lot of snow. At our city property, the piles are over 8 feet high and there’s no room to put any more, so this morning I...

I went down to Canadian Tire yesterday, thinking about buying a snowblower – shovels just can’t keep up with the white crap this year in the many places that my truck-mounted plow can’t get to. What did I find instead? The front of the store is jammed with barbecues,...

We had another moose drop by this morning. Monty alerted Cathy that something unusual was up, and she looked out the bedroom window to see the cow walking by about 30 feet away. The cow was walking quite gingerly, and I believe that she’s pregnant (calves are born between...

Even with the snow falling heavily, I figured that there would be some interesting action at the airport, rationalizing that flying in crap like this would be good training for military crews. So, with the snow 6-6½ inches deep on my driveway (measured with a ruler), I pulled Subie...

Yesterday was the start of the Yukon Quest, our 1,000-mile sled dog race that runs from Whitehorse to Fairbanks. This was a particularly exciting one for me, mostly because it’s the first time since 2003 that I’ve been able to attend (in previous years I’ve been out of town...

We don’t actually live in igloos as many folks Outside apparently think, but check out this photo of one of our transit buses. I didn’t make this up – it’s a screenshot of part of yesterday’s Whitehorse Star home page (thanks to Smells Like Yukon for pointing out this...