Atlin is having a tough time, there’s no question about that. Back in the early and mid ’90s I used to go there fairly regularly, both by myself and guiding groups on both day trips and overnighters. The ability to take large groups to Atlin ended when the Atlin...

This is the Yukon’s holiday weekend – Discovery Day – and it’s a beauty, with sunshine and record-breaking temperatures. We spent the first couple of days of it at our cabin in Carcross. This was our first overnight there since I moved completely to Whitehorse 3 years ago, and...

I flew down to Kelowna, BC, on Monday for a family visit, and will be heading home tonight. I don’t usually leave my car at the airport, but with a flight that lands in Whitehorse at midnight on a day that Cathy has to work, decided to do it...

Mother Nature is sending us a gift tonight – a major show of the aurora borealis. It seems like a very long time since this has happened. It will last for about 48 hours, so tonight and tomorrow night should both be good times to have your camera and...

Every now and then I come across something that triggers “man, I’ve gotta see that!” This morning it’s the Aleutian Islands again, prompted by a couple of photographs at the Museum of the Aleutians Web site. I’ve always been fascinated by the Aleutians war – by the difficulty and...

I’ve been saying for a few years that I’m semi-retired – although I have to work, I can pretty much do what I want, when I want to do it. I’ve just discovered, though, that to be truly semi-retired, a guy needs a toy or two. The motorcycle is...

I wonder if the cliche about men past “a certain age” buying a red convertible to regain their young (and perhaps adding a young blonde in the right seat) was ever true? In my world in the past couple of decades at least, the red convertible has been replaced...

For the past 3 days I’ve been surrounding myself with little airplanes. Whitehorse is currently hosting “Century Flight 2010”, the largest gathering of airplanes in the Yukon since Word War II. The is the 2nd event organized by John Lovelace, who for 10 years was host of the television...

Cathy and I are fairly good about geting out for a walk with the dogs at least once a day. Just short ones, a loop around the property, but it’s something. When we lived in town we used to go to the airport for our walks quite often, and...