Category: Whitehorse

On Tuesday, April 8th, I flew home with Air North after a particularly good visit with most of my family and a life-long friend. I had my son drop me at the airport at 10:30 for my 12:35 flight – being early greatly reduces my stress levels and of...

As I went to bed Tuesday night, I looked outside and said to Cathy that it felt like an aurora night – “in a couple of hours.” An hour and a half later, she woke me up and said a display had started. I put my pyjamas on, got...

My project yesterday (February 27th) was to document the entire Waterfront Trail, to show people what it looks like as a reply to some online complaints about how the new buildings in Whitehorse have ruined the views of the river we used to have. In actual fact, we now...

This post was written this morning for my page at The Outbound Collective, but I decided to post it here instead. The writing is a bit different than my normal because it’s written for people who know nothing about the Yukon – the articles are meant as a “first...

I haven’t been getting out much this winter, but the past few days I’ve finally pulled myself away from my desk and got out a few times. Nothing very exciting, but here’s a bit of what the Whitehorse area looks like in January. It’s been a very strange winter...

This is the fourth post in a row about photographing the aurora borealis, but it will be the last one for quite a while. The posts have been about progressively better displays, but there’s nowhere to go after this one. I haven’t seen any reports from scientists yet, but...

We’ve had some extremely optimistic aurora forecasts that turned out to be duds lately, but the night of October 7th-8th was very good, and the aurora was seen way down into the States. I was out shooting it twice. I wasn’t feeling well on the 7th so went to...

It’s hard to say what started this, but I noted yesterday that I had shot a dozen photos of Whitehorse from the top of the clay cliffs – part of the airport trail network – on May 14, 2000. I posted two of the ones that show the most...

For many Yukoners, aircraft are an important part of life – at the very least as a way to travel. Yesterday I went to the Whitehorse airport to see the air display that’s been part of our end-of-winter Rendezvous events since 1971, when 2 aircraft were on display. In...

I started by titling this post “Running errands at 40 below” then decided that normal terminology here might make no sense to people in other places 🙂 Anyway, with the temperature right at -40°C (which is also -40°F), I needed to go into Whitehorse this morning because I offered...