Category: Whitehorse

Our hiking group used to do outings on Saturday mostly, but as the group is expanding, so is the variety of times and places. One of the members suggested a few days ago that dinner-time hikes might be nice, so on Thursday, 5 of us with 3 dogs met...

I hadn’t planned to go out aurora hunting on March 16th, but it turned out to be one of the best aurora displays I’ve seen in a long time. My usual aurora-forecast starting point, the UAF Geophysical Institute, gave it a Level 0 – meaning there’d be no chance...

Saturday, February 2nd was the main event that my tour guests had come to see – the start of the Yukon Quest 2019 sled dog race! The race was scheduled to start at 11:00, but the dog yard where all the mushers and dogs ge ready was open to...

It’s been more than 5 weeks since I last posted – time flies when you’re having fun 🙂 Here’s a bit of a catch-up on what’s going on. Mostly, that’s another litter of rescue puppies. I haven’t seen confirmation by the weather office, but I expect that we’re having...

This little exploration was prompted by a couple of videos that were posted on Facebook recently, showing a beaver crossing 4 lanes of traffic on Two Mile Hill in Whitehorse. My response was something to the effect of “where is he going? There’s no water over there”. Somebody responded...

For its first 50 years, Whitehorse was solidly connected to the Yukon River, and to the sternwheelers and other boats that ran up and down it. Now, although the restored sternwheeler S.S. Klondike is the city’s most iconic attraction, the other boats have been pretty much forgotten, and even...

One would think that, because it’s so close in both physical and emotional ways, that the Pioneer Cemetery in Whitehorse would have been a prime focus in my cemeteries project. But it had been neglected for so many decades that my heart just wasn’t in it. That has all...

Getting into old newspapers has once again sent me on a long wandering path. This time it was a path in the midnight sun, one of the things I love the most about the North. This little journey began when I stumbled across an ad for Alaskan Airways’ Midnight...

A few days ago, a friend called and asked if I’d like to join her and her daughters for an aurora photography night. I suggested that she bring some glow sticks in case the aurora didn’t show, and when 3 more young people showed up, we had a lot...

I’m currently in Calgary, on Day 5 of a 14-day series of family visits in Alberta and Ontario. It was gorgeous when I left Whitehorse, but a wild blizzard hit the next morning in Calgary. At 4:45 Sunday evening, we were about ready to board one of Air North’s...