Category: Whitehorse

Over the past week, I’ve been on a couple of fine summer hikes, but the morning temperature has been below freezing twice (down to -4°C), and a drive to Skagway left no doubt that Fall has arrived. The first hike was at Atlin, where my friend Karla had invited...

This year, the world-famous RCMP Musical Ride is on a cross-country tour in celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday, visiting all 10 provinces and the Yukon Territory. On August 12th and 13th, they performed 3 shows in Whitehorse, but they were also visible around town in other ways. The last...

Delta Air Lines paid the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport a surprise visit on Saturday night. Their Boeing 757-232(WL) N6713Y had to make a precautionary landing after the emergency oxygen supply dropped below 50%. It had over 200 passengers and crew on board. Every now and then, receives an...

The past week, I’ve been exploring the world of public art in Whitehorse. I’ve put a lot of miles on by car and on foot, and have been quite amazed at the amount of art to be enjoyed for free around the city. The main thing that I’ve accomplished...

Yesterday was the start of Yukon Quest 2017. It was a long, exciting day, and I’m posting some photos from the hundreds I shot, with few captions. It was a short night and we’ll be off to Skagway and Haines early this morning, so at this point there’s no...

Yesterday was a long day, starting with a tour of Whitehorse at 09:00, and I got home from the Yukon Quest Start Banquet at about 10:00. There’s a lot see to get a good impression of what life in Whitehorse is like, and 4 hours never turns out to...

I’m sure that you’ve all heard the stories about how dark and dreary winters are in the Far North – some of you may even believe those stories 🙂 Today I’d just like to give you a brief look at what December 21st was like in Whitehorse. I had...

Five weeks away from the blog feels like forever. It’s not that I’ve been doing nothing, it’s just that there’s been little worthy of writing about. There’s very little snow, and we’ve had fairly warm temperatures and lots of cloud, so no aurora… The forecast last night was for...

Except for a spectacular May, this was a sad excuse for summer in the Yukon, and now it’s gone. The Whitehorse area typically gets about 262 mm (10.3 inches) of precipitation per year (21.8 mm per month), but this year we got 35 mm in July, and a record...

Friday night was intended to be another night of aurora photography. Despite a great forecast, the aurora never showed in any photograph-worthy way, but I did rediscover a side of Whitehorse that I hadn’t seen in many years. There will certainly be other nights like this, as it’s a...