Category: Whitehorse

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...

A funeral was held in Whitehorse yesterday for Marty Dobbin, the Yukon’s Fire Marshal. It began with the air and land procession seen in the photos below. I didn’t know him, but the obituary at the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs site says: “Marty was the backbone of the...

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had picked up 1,900 pounds of tile for the entry and kitchen. I got a phone call yesterday from Home Hardware, where we bought them. We were quoted $8.50 per tile – thinking that was low, we asked for and...

Thanks to fellow Whitehorse blogger Meandering Michael, I was at the airport at sunrise today to get some more photos of an Mi-26T helicopter, the largest current-production helicopter in the world. The last time this aircraft was in Whitehorse (the only time, I believe) was in early May 2006,...

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...