It’s that time of year when moose mate. Today I got incredibly lucky and witnessed part of a mating dance at Tutshi Lake. I first saw this bull on the sand bar at the south end of the lake, at the mouth of the Tutshi River. He was just...

I was working at the cruise office in Whitehorse yesterday and during my 15-minute commute back to Mary Lake got a bit distracted by some photo ops. That made me think about the difference between a Whitehorse commute and what it’s like in some other places. In the Fall...

Going through photos of our house renovation progress yesterday, I came across some pictures of the snow we got last winter, and was shocked – my memory of being buried in the white crap might have underestimated it. The two photos below show Cathy digging a pathway into the...

The Fall colours on Golden Horn are spectacular this morning – this photo was taken from the deck at 07:40. I had planned to get into the high country today but the friend who was going to go with me cancelled because she’s sick. Now, should I go and...

My list of “to-dos” is lengthy and growing, but the priority is getting ready for the arrival of Father Winter. The largest of those jobs is firewood – the cutting and the stacking. We’ve still got a good stock of logs from our cutting last year, and today’s focus...

Cathy and I had planned on working on the house yesterday. No really, we had 🙂 , even though it was a beautiful morning. But then I got an email from the WP&YR railfan discussion list [now gone] that I belong to, saying that there was going to be...

You may have seen this joke in various forms, but I”ve added a Yukon twist: A man died and went to heaven.. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, “What are all those...

I just picked up 1:50,000 topographical maps of the Canadian part of the Chilkoot Trail, and found a major typo on a map that was printed in 1984 and corrected in 1999 (104M/14). Not only is the park not “Childkoot”, Parks Canada says that it shouldn’t even be “Park”...

…and I just couldn’t resist going to Skagway today. There were 4 large ships scheduled, so this was probably the last opportunity to see Skagway crazy-busy in the sunshine this year. The timing was perfect to catch one of Spirit Lake Lodge’s trail rides crossing the South Klondike Highway....

Now that the sunshine and heat is gone I’m back to house renovations in between the projects that provide cash. Today the dining room serving bar is getting its tile top. In the first photo you can see the bar (which was a coat closet until I fired up...