Some of the readers of this blog are excellent photographers – here’s a chance for you to win some great prizes with your images. Enter Alaska Airlines Share the Moment Photo Contest. Choose and upload a photograph that best captures your favorite vacation moment from anywhere in the world....

Yesterday was a gorgeous day to get out, and it looked like pretty much every Yukoner had the same idea. Our reasonably warm, sunny days are about to end, and traffic was quite heavy on the Alaska Highway – by our standards that means that there were occasionally 6...

Many of you in Whitehorse will have seen the large private jet that sat at the airport for about 10 days as big-game hunting season began. EC-KJH was a Bombardier BD-700-1A10 Global Express owned by a charter company from Spain. Did you wonder what a bird like that would...

To all my friends who send me ‘best wishes’, chain letters, ‘angel’ letters or other promises of good luck if I forward something, NONE OF THAT SHIT IS WORKING! Could you please just send money, alcohol, chocolate or gasoline vouchers? (hint – I really like single-malt Scotch) 🙂 Actually,...

Here’s a photo I took at the Trans Alaska Pipeline interpretive centre in Fairbanks in July 2006 when Palin was running for Governor. The slogan “Canada my ass, it’s Alaska’s Gas!” was used by the Alaskan Independence Party, which she supported. Doesn’t that give you a warm fuzzy feeling...

This was an experiment that didn’t work. Kayla just wasn’t into being a sled dog and I don’t have the patience to try to convince her that it’s fun (she’s also getting arthritic so not a good idea anyway). Monty and I will go back to skijoring this winter....

Yesterday we just got a few flakes of snow, but last night it came down heavy and wet for a while starting at about 7:00. I had never heard that heavy, wet snow could kill satellite TV reception, but when we totally lost the HD channels and then the...

With the Internet and the proliferation of guide book publishing in the modern world, it’s tougher than it used to be to deceive visitors. To some degree, people have the ability to research to see if claims about certain visitor services and attractions are true. Unfortunately that’s not always...