On Sunday (June 13th), I decided to try a road/trail that has intrigued me for many years. I knew it wouldn’t be an easy ride, but it was tougher than I expected. In a total time of 3 hours, 19 minutes, I rode 33.7 km (20.9 mi), and climbed...

Yesterday, I tried to get to the Cowley Lakes for the third time in a month, but after a lot of mud and water got stopped by a lengthy stretch of thigh-deep water on the trail. It ended up as a 34-km ride, on the WWII Canol pipeline road,...

I’m getting the e-bike out fairly often, and am extremely pleased with the bike (a Giant Fathom) and the trails available to ride. Yesterday I went on a route that was particularly interesting, ending at a beach on the Yukon River, where I found some wreckage from an old...

I know that many of you live in areas where frogs are abundant and seeing and hearing them is no big deal. In the Yukon, though, many people don’t even realize we have frogs here, so when I saw an ad last week that Yukon Wildlife Viewing was having...

Yesterday, I went out on a major exploration again, on the route I started to ride on May 13th, along the WWII Canol pipeline road. My goal was again to reach the Cowley Lakes where the White Pass & Yukon Route rail line crosses them. Cathy joined me this...

Having gotten comfortable with my new e-bike on paved roads, I’ve been anxious to get it out on some of the backroads and trails I bought it for. Although there is still a lot of snow in my yard, I decided on Thursday to give a historic road right...

On Tuesday and Wednesday (May 4th and 5th), I made two rides that were significant in my life. On Tuesday I did the longest ride yet on my new e-bike, just over 30 kilometers. And yesterday I did a 504-km ride to Kluane Lake on the V-Star – it’s...

Our spring swan hunt on April 19th began at Carcross, but there were few swans so just before 4:00 pm we headed for the bridge at Tagish where numbers are usually much higher. That’s a scenic 34-km drive. Yukon Highway 8, more commonly called the Tagish Road, is a...

On Monday, April 19th, I got a call from friends asking if I’d like to join them for a swan hunt. I sure would! I’m doing two blog posts about this outing because the Carcross and Tagish parts of it were quite different and each has enough photos to...

It felt for a while like Father Winter was never going to leave, but Spring has now arrived. Though nights are still just below freezing, the sun is very warm. We have a record load of snow on the ground – for a while 1972 had deeper snow according...