With my visit to Haines cut a bit short by the combination of a call about a friend in hospital and an approaching storm, I headed towards home at 6:30 Wednesday evening. With the workers having gone home for the day, there were no delays through the 8 miles...

Although I had planned for a bit more time, I ended up having 50 hours in Haines this time. I know Haines fairly well and didn’t have any real plans other than visiting with my friend Greg. It would just be a couple of days of wandering/exploring wherever the...

My season opener trip for the RV was intended to be 4 days in Haines, Alaska, and then 4 days at Kluane Lake, Yukon. It didn’t work out that way, but more about that later. At 11:00 on Monday, we headed west – “we” being Bella, Tucker, Molly (the...

As I start writing this at 04:30, I’m up on the Haines Highway just north of the summit. I stopped here on my way north after 2 days and nights in Haines. As expected, it snowed overnight – there’s 2-3 inches, so it should be beautiful when dawn arrives...

The timing for this short visit to Vancouver worked out very well. After 2 gorgeous days, the weather was forecast to turn sour as I left. I had no plans for Day 3, and I didn’t really feel driven to see or accomplish anything. Wandering around looking at flowers,...

My first day of this short trip to Vancouver had been wonderful. Even though I didn’t land at YVR until 11:00, I saw and photographed a lot, and confirmed that this getaway was a very good idea. What might I get into on a full day? 🙂 After walking...

My plans for this short visit to Vancouver were very basic – well, I had no specific plans actually. I was just going to wander around the downtown area with my camera and see what happened. The wheels of my plane touched the runway at 11:05, and 14 minutes...

I’ve been itching to go somewhere for a while. Something easy and short – just a head-clearing sort of trip. Last week, with a good weather forecast in both places, I booked an Air North flight to from Whitehorse to Vancouver Sunday morning, and 2 nights at the Executive...

I hadn’t planned to go out aurora hunting on March 16th, but it turned out to be one of the best aurora displays I’ve seen in a long time. My usual aurora-forecast starting point, the UAF Geophysical Institute, gave it a Level 0 – meaning there’d be no chance...

Deep among the spectacular peaks to the west of Haines Junction is an ice cave that first became public knowledge in 2016, and has been getting an ever-increasing number of visitors. Recent warnings to stay away because it’s collapsing prompted me to post a hike on a local group’s...