It’s hard to say what started this, but I noted yesterday that I had shot a dozen photos of Whitehorse from the top of the clay cliffs – part of the airport trail network – on May 14, 2000. I posted two of the ones that show the most...

On Wednesday (May 1st), I finally made it to what had been my planned destination, the trail to the Venus mine, a few minutes before 1 pm. Then I immediately changed my plan again – there was a vehicle there. So I drove back a few hundred meters to...

On Wednesday (May 1st), I decided on the spur of the moment to do my almost-annual because-I-still-can hike up to the upper adit of the historic Venus silver mine. That’s not the way the day played out, though – here’s the first of two posts about what I did...

I always get a bit impatient this time of year – we’re having a lengthy spell of spectacular days, but the nights are still well below freezing (it’s -6°C/+21°F at the moment and I just lit the woodstove), so few plants are in bud yet. There are a few...

When I wrote about my April 7th flight to Inuvik, I said that it would probably take me five blog posts to tell you about the 5-day trip. But here we are on the final day’s drive to Whitehorse on April 11th, and this is Arctic blog post #10,...

At the end of the last post, Tyson and I had turned back onto the Dempster Highway at 1:05 on April 10th, and were headed for an overnight stay at Dawson City. This post covers a lot of spectacular miles, and has 54 photos. Of course I have a...

It took me a while to figure out how to show you the Dempster Highway, as I shot 197 photos on the day we drove it, April 10th. I hope that two posts will be reasonable – Inuvik to Fort McPherson, then Fort McPherson to Dawson City. Actually only...

First, a map to get you oriented. Aklavik is located on a channel of the Peel River, towards the west side of the central part of the vast Mackenzie River Delta. An interactive version of the map can be found here. Having driven the ice road from Inuvik, my...

I got up at about 03:15 today. First thing (as always), I went out onto the deck and checked the sky. There was a very faint glow that was probably aurora, but the current report showed a Kp of under 2, so there was basically no chance of getting...

On Tuesday, April 9th, my friend Tyson and I drove the ice road from Inuvik to Aklavik, but this post shows more than the title indicates. We also drove back to Inuvik in very different weather conditions, took a side trip on the ice road to historic Reindeer Station,...