Category: Whitehorse

I’m not getting out much anymore, but decided to go into town and get a few groceries yesterday. It’s been dark, cloudy and dreary lately, but despite there being no good weather forecast, I wondered if perhaps the Fish Lake Road might climb up into better weather. Did it...

I finally got out yesterday for some photography – a 2-hour wandering drive with no plan except to take pictures of whatever caught my attention. It felt great, and I’ve posted 24 of the photos here as well as 3 short videos. I’ve been pecking away at the 3...

I did a fairly major adventure with the e-bike yesterday, riding 31.5 km on the historic Dawson Overland Trail north of Whitehorse. Built in 1902, this was the winter road to Dawson, used when the Yukon River froze – see “The Whitehorse to Dawson Overland Trail” by Ken Spotswood....

I had it in my mind that Mt. McIntyre (“Mount Mac”) would be a great place for the e-bike. That turned out to not be particularly true, but it’s so beautiful up there I’ll show you how these two days went anyway. My first drive up was on Monday,...

I’ve just come in from one of the most amazing aurora shows I’ve ever seen, and after dying down, it’s ramping up again as I write this. There are photos being posted from all over Canada, so a whole lot of people are getting to experience this one. Although...

While the Spring migration of the Trumpeter and Tundra swans through the southern Yukon is a major event, the Fall migration is generally not, because there is no massive gathering of thousands of swans. At least there’s no massive gathering in a place that’s easy to get to. In...

Winter arrived early this year – very early – but then backed off for a couple of weeks, and I got out a few times to photograph the “in-between” season, with ice and open water, frost and green plants. And there were some interesting aircraft as well 🙂 My...

Following up on a conversation with a friend about hiking to the Grey Mountain cave above Whitehorse when somebody who knows the way could take us, I decided on the spur of the moment this morning to go and find it myself. Vague directions resulted in me doing two...

Following up on a conversation with a friend about hiking to the Grey Mountain cave above Whitehorse when somebody who knows the way could take us, I decided on the spur of the moment this morning to go and find it myself. Vague directions resulted in me doing two...

The number of historic mining sites in the Whitehorse Copper Belt is quite astonishing when you have a guide like Tim Green who is a fount of knowledge about it, and loves sharing what he has discovered. On Sunday we spent 4 hours in a very small part of...