Mid-Winter in Skagway, Alaska

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...
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Dealing with the nastiest day of Winter

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...
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Sucked in by the weather office again?

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...
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Putting up Christmas lights at 30 below

I thought it would warm up. Well, it did, but I was busy. “Warm” and “not busy” never did coincide (well, “not busy” never actually occurred). So, at 30 below zero, the Xmas lights went up on the house this afternoon. Next year I’ll get them up in October....
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Morning at Mary Lake at -31°C

It’s a tad nippy out there this morning – -31°C (-24°F) – but my god it’s beautiful. This was our view of Golden Horn at 10:16, 7 minutes after sunrise. Today was a “special treat” morning for breakfast (these special treats get more and more common 🙂 ) –...
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A perfect Yukon Winter

With many of my friends in the eastern States getting hammered by Mother Nature right now, I have to show you the Whitehorse forecast. This is the way winter used to be before the “global warming” changes began – cold and clear, not much snow (there’s perhaps 5 inches...
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“Better Choices, Better Health”

There’s a conference coming up in Whitehorse in April 2010 that I want to tell you about. The Yukon Wholistic Health Network is bringing Dr. Gabor Maté in to present a series of talks and workshops based on his best-selling book When The Body Says No: The Cost of...
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Awww, poor Cheetah Woods

Last night I was hugely amused (and occasionally grossed out) by PeopleofWalmart.com – but today Tiger Woods is even funnier. The higher you climb, the further there is to fall, and there’s a lot of funny stuff out on the Web now! The funniest has to be the Tiger...
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A morning at the Carcross cabin

Cathy and I went to the Carcross cabin yesterday, to show it to a young couple who are interested in buying it. Cathy doesn’t want to sell it, and going there makes her a bit sad. We had a lot of good times there (among many other events large...
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Frosty day exploring west of Whitehorse

It is soooo beautiful right now – the temperature is still not bad, hanging around -20°C (-4°F), and the sunshine and thick frost are distractingly pretty. Yesterday I went exploring for a bit. I had to meet a Web site client out to the west just before sunrise, and...
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