Category: Yukon

Although there have been some worries, the Yukon has been exceptionally lucky this summer – lots of hot, sunny days with few forest fires. Only Dawson has significant fires burning – lightning has, I believe, caused all of them this year. See the Yukon Wildland Fire Management site for...

Many of you no doubt saw the strange little UFO-looking Xof1 solar car when it was up last summer for a tour. Well it’ll be back in Whitehorse either late Saturday or on Sunday. In the photo below, the Power of One (Xof1) solar car is seen on the...

Summer has arrived!! My kids are making me kinda nuts, though 🙂 When I was in Calgary 3 weeks ago I helped my daughter pick out a new Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle, and a few minutes ago my son pulled up on his new Kawasaki KLR650! 🙂 Whoohoo, Daddy needs...

In case any of you like using reservation services for trip planning, I’m passing on a warning from the Yukon Tourism Department about a company working under several Web sites targeting Alaska, the Yukon, NWT and Nunavut. A screenshot of the CBC article is below. Note that the same...

Well, The Weather Network long-term forecast seems to indicate that the cold is about at an end 🙂 There are moose tracks all over the property now (even in the corral), so I was out shovelling waist-deep snow today to create places for our moose to get to new...

I mentioned yesterday that a brake had frozen on my pickup truck and it was stranded at our Granger property. I stewed about it all night, as the situation was made even worse by the fact that in all the fuss I hadn’t even thought about plugging it in...

For the past week, we’ve had 2 moose coming through the property on their rounds, and on Christmas Eve they bedded down for the night less than 100 feet from our bedroom window. We haven’t seen them yet, but the next-door neighbour says it’s a cow and 2-year-old calf....

According to The Weather Network, it’ll be darn near Spring, with temperatures hitting about 0°C (32°F). Given the accuracy of weather forecasts, I’m not going to hold my breath, though 🙂...

It is so beautiful when the mercury drops out the bottom of your thermometer. No, really! Check out these photos taken in the past few days, for example: The historic sternwheeler SS Klondike in an icy fog rising off the open water of the Yukon River as it flows...

The warm spell we’ve got happening right now seemed like a good time to put our first Christmas lights up on the house. “Warm” is relative, though – it’s been getting up to about -10°C, which still makes for cold fingers when you’re trying to work with little gutter...