A Christmas drive to Skagway, and other stuff
We’re 3 days past the shortest day of the year now. That’s always a significant point for me – PLEASE come back, Sun! 🙂 It’s actually been an easy winter so far, probably because I’m so busy with all kinds of projects. I’ll tell you about some of them,...
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Digging out of a record-breaking snowfall
Yesterday was a busy day, and I can sure feel it in my old bones this morning. I haven’t seen official confirmation that the snowfall that ended about noon yesterday was a record, but I’m quite sure that it was. The Environment Canada weather statistics say that the record...
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Early Yukon motoring
With the weather not very conducive to Adventures lately, the vast majority of my time is being spent on house renovations. But History is always part of my life, and I’ve spent a bit of time going through my files of old newspaper articles. A couple that caught my...
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All work and no play…
… makes Murray a dull boy – and am I dull! Between Web site work and house renovations, I haven’t been out of the house much lately except to go to the hardware, and I have a basement full of materials for the winter. The big Web job is...
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Finding Ruth Lake – the conclusion
In my last post, Monty and I had had an excellent day exploring along a long-abandoned section of the White Pass & Yukon Route railway, but I’d been unable to confirm the exact location of the scene on a century-old playing card showing “Ruth Lake”. On Thursday, my fur-buddy...
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The History Hounds, sniffing around the White Pass railroad
It’s funny how sometimes a subject or a person that hasn’t been in your life for quite a while will all of a sudden appear over and over in a short period. This past week, that subject was the White Pass & Yukon Route railway. It actually began with...
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Exploring WP&YR railway history in Skagway
We continue to have a wonderful Fall (or Early Winter), and on Monday, with a fairly good weather forecast for both Whitehorse and Skagway, I decided to take a drive to Skagway. I was away from the house just before the 09:15 sunrise, expecting some good light on the...
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From Haines Back to Whitehorse by Motorcycle
Although I went to bed early Tuesday night, and the weather forecast had been good for Wednesday, but it was very darm when I got up. Even though it was an hour and a half before sunrise (which would be at 07:44), I knew that there must be a...
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Whitehorse to Haines by Motorcycle
After getting our first “permanent” snow on October 4th last year, almost an month earlier than normal, I’ve been praying for a better Fall this year, and we’re getting it. One of the things that means for me is putting more miles on my motorcycle. On Tuesday, I headed...
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Naturism in the Yukon – the Tutshi River
This was originally written for a new blog, about naturism/nudism in the Yukon, Alaska and the northwest corner of British Columbia. Although I’ve been an advocate – even an activist at times – for naturism for many years (see my nude hiking website), the blog didn’t go any further,...
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