Magic & mystery, or homogeny?
This was the Red Feather Saloon as I saw it for the first time, on June 20, 1985. This is one of the images from that trip, a whirlwind tour of the Yukon and adjacent areas by small plane, that I love the most – it reminds me of...
Read More
Life is a Journey…
…and being a tour/charter bus driver took that journey down some very interesting roads for 17 years until I retired from it last year. One of the roads I’ve never tired of is the North Klondike Highway to Dawson City. The photo below was taken from my room at...
Read More
Changing seasons, changing priorities
My good canoe, the Wenonah-Jensen, is now hanging from the ceiling in the Whitehorse garage, while the poor, heavy old Coleman sits on the beach waiting to be covered by snow. Between travel, poor weather and high water that eliminated the beaches on Lake Bennett, neither canoe got wet...
Read More
Books as an investment
My first book, Fractured Veins & Broken Dreams, has been out of print for about 3 years now. Occasionally a copy appears in the collector market, but even that’s dried up in the past years or so. I got an email this afternoon that a dealer in Florida has...
Read More
The Carcross footbridge is open!
The deck was finished on Thursday, the final cleanup was done yesterday and the crews will be heading south in a couple of days – Carcross has a beautiful new footbridge across the Nares River! You can see a large photo album of the history and progress of the...
Read More
Weather – what’s the reality?
Weather forecasts make me nuts – they are so seldom right it’s really a waste of time even looking. But now they can’t even get the Current Conditions right 🙁 On Tuesday morning at 11:00, the Current Conditions said sunny and 16°C – it was actually raining and 8°...
Read More
A sudden Fall
Brrrrrrr – I’m not nearly ready for Summer to leave 🙁...
Read More
A history & nature day
The day up Montana Mountain with Bob was excellent – even the weather cooperated. I’ve only ever shown a handful of people I trust the campsite seen in the first photo below. This is probably the most pristine century-old campsite in the Yukon – almost everything is there, from...
Read More
Yukon flight
Flying excites me – if I can’t be doing it, I want to be watching it. Whether it’s natural flight or technological flight is immaterial – the concept is the same to me, and the Yukon is a great place to watch both types. The photo above is a...
Read More
The tragedies continue…
The people killed in the balloon fire/crash in Surrey on Friday were the sister of a school friend of mine and her daughter. One of my sisters went to school with Shannon and was going to meet her on a school reunion cruise next month. To the Rogers and...
Read More