Late Winter to mid-Summer in 48 hours!
What a weekend that was! Yesterday it hit 27°C (80.6°F), a new record for the day (the previous record was 26.1 in 1947). You could practically watch the trees leafing out, and the snow melting from Golden Horn. The two photos below were taken from our breakfast table 24...
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Digging our way into Spring!
It’s not really Spring yet with well-below-freezing temperatures every night, but many folks in the North are digging their way into Spring, if not Summer. Up in deep snow country (the White Pass), the Yukon Suspension Bridge has the trenches dug into the property, now has to wait for...
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That Spring feeling!
When I posted last Saturday that Winter was over, I must have tempted fate, because Father Winter returned the next day and got the de-icing crews at YXY back to work. We’ve had a good run of days now where the temperature gets above freezing for a while now,...
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Spectacular Yukon wilderness properties for sale
The Yukon still has remote wilderness property available for purchase that is so incredibly beautiful that many people in the world aren’t even able to form a dream that compares. By world standards, these properties often list for very low prices – here are a couple of examples currently...
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Major Northern Lights shows coming!
It’s been a very poor year for aurora viewing, so I want to give you a heads-up that major shows are forecast to occur on February 29 and March 8. We won’t be here, but maybe we’ll get to see the aurora australis. The image below is one I...
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Tour Yukon – A Poor Web Site Gets Worse
The Yukon’s tourism Web site (TravelYukon.com) has never been very good, but the latest version is appallingly bad. Try to find some information there in the way a visitor would – for example, accommodations along the road from Whitehorse to Dawson – and you’ll come up empty. But then...
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Global warming causes wimps?
The Yukon is sure changing. Or at least Yukoners are. Not that many years ago, the deep-freeze that we’re now in was the norm for a few weeks every year. While it was still a common conversation starter, life went on as usual. This year, activity has noticeably slowed...
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Alaska-Yukon adventures – easy but unusual ones
Getting off the usual tourist route seems to be less common each year, so I really enjoying hearing from people who are doing it. In the last couple of days, I received 2 emails that point to images I’d like you to see. First, “SueT”, a frequent poster on...
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Grow your skyline – just add water
Some of you may be like me – when you’re downtown you’re focussed on projects and probably miss the details around you (hopefully not details like red lights or icy roads, but some people in Whitehorse are missing even those really important details lately). One of the details I’d...
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Frost causing power outages??
I’ve heard that hoar frost on power lines can cause power outages, but never paid much attention to whether or not it’s true. Since we moved to Mary Lake, though, we get split-second outages at least once a day, so this morning it was time to check out what...
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