The lead teams in the Yukon Quest will cross the finish line in downtown Whitehorse in a few hours, and I hope to be down there with my camera. Yesterday I volunteered to take 3 checkpoint volunteers up to Carmacks and Pelly Crossing, and the photos below are from...

I had to go to Skagway again today (and you know how much I hate that drive!), but today Cathy came with me and we got to spend some time with friends in Skagway. Well, friends of mine, as Cathy hadn’t met them before. While the weather was nothing...

Although I used the word “volcano” in the title, Golden Horn isn’t technically a volcano, as the lava that oozed out of it wasn’t an eruption. I fairly often post photos of Golden Horn as we see it from our property, but tonight I’d like to show you how...

What a day that was! While not quite suntanning weather yet, it felt like Spring. The temperature hit +1°C here in Mary Lake, and I saw +3 on a Whitehorse report. We started really noticing the change in the light about a week ago – this is when most...

Whitehorse is a dramatically different community than it was when I arrived 20 years ago, but the changes have come fairly slowly. Yesterday I took an hour and recorded some of the little changes happening now. One of the larger construction projects is the new medical staff residence at...

For the past week, Cathy and I have been babysitting 2 dogs while my son and his partner prepare to move. It’s made for a very busy house! Yesterday morning before heading to the cruise office, I took them all out for a walk/play to put them in a...

I have never found a better salve for the wounds inflicted by emotional trauma than heading off into the mountains. After a difficult weekend of second-hand trauma, I was blessed today by as spectacular a day as I’ve ever seen on the South Klondike Highway. Here’s a brief look...

I drove down to Skagway on Monday, but I’m so busy that I haven’t had a chance to post the photos until now, 4 days later (and this is being posted at 02:00 am). The weather forecast wasn’t great but I needed to pick up some stuff that’s been...

Some of you may have thought that I was just being negative with my post “Sucked in by the Weather Office Again?“. Well, the forecast that I was referring to called for temperatures of +5°C and showers for today. What we actually have is -25, high winds and heavy...

I don’t really know why I keep reading weather forecasts. Maybe it’s like buying lottery tickets – you know, “hey, it could happen!!”. Here’s The Weather Network’s 14-day forecast for Whitehorse right now, showing the temperatures shooting up from today’s high of -21°C to +1 by Friday and +5...