We continue to have an extremely warm winter with little snow. To say that it’s been an easy winter so far is an understatement, despite a few days of deep cold that brought with it great photo ops 🙂 When I saw these forecasts yesterday, it looked like a...

Just a few hundred yards from my quiet property is an abandoned stock car race track. The K.M.A. Speedway closed permanently in 2004, but this 3/8 mile semi-banked dirt oval provided Whitehorse residents with a lot of fun and excitement for over 30 years. Races were held by the...

I really like it when Mother Nature drops the temperature to bitterly-cold levels. It’s exciting. While I may not like every aspect of deep cold, recent posts by Yukoners on various social media sites show that many of us consider the cold to be more exciting or at least...

I’m not usually one for photography “gimmicks”, usually referred to as “Photoshopping”. But there are times when a simple technique can get the image you know is in front of you but the camera just isn’t capturing. Yesterday’s sunrise was a good example. To get the incredible colours of...

The shortest and darkest day of the year is only 2 days away now, and yesterday I took the dogs to Skagway for the day. As you’ll see, I hope, the stories about how dark and dreary mid-winter in the Yukon is are just not true 🙂 This is...

Sunday morning was a sad/happy time. Sad because I had to say goodbye to my niece as she starts the next phase of her life far from the Yukon, happy because I was flying home. We were in no huge hurry to get moving, and the White Spot restaurant...

We got off to an early start in Quesnel on Friday, excited about this being the last day of the road trip to Vancouver. After a big breakfast at Smitty’s, we were on the road at 06:50. Although we did get a lot of fog and ice as expected,...

We had driven 944 kilometers from Whitehorse to Fort Nelson on Thursday, and our destination for this night was Quesnel, some 970 km south. We filled up the gas tank at $1.329 when we arrived last night, and after a good breakfast, were on the road at 07:20, with...

My niece and I are on our way to Vancouver. She’s not comfortable with driving 3,000 kilometers by herself this time of year, and – well, I’m her uncle 🙂 This was the weather forecast for the entire route – not too bad. Mostly warmish with a bit of...

The fur-kids and I were due for a road trip yesterday, and just by coincidence, I had a couple of packages to pick up at the Skagway post office. The weather forecast called for a dull day, but there’s still little snow and the temperature was a mild -11°C...