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The writer is a resident of Canada's Yukon Territory with a passion for Exploring the North. This blog is one of the vehicles used to share that passion through words and images.
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From the Snowy Yukon to the Sunny Okanagan
As of last night I’m in Kelowna for a week visiting family. It’s nowhere near as warm as I’d hoped, but it is sunny – and the Fall Wine Festival is on This is what my driveway looked like yesterday as I was getting ready to ...
Sabreliner 65 – an Unusual Jet in Town
The past few days there’s been a corporate jet parked at YXY of a type I didn’t recognize, so this afternoon I finally took a few minutes and stopped for a good look. The Mexican-registered beauty is a Sabreliner 65, built by North Americ...
A Yukon Commute
I was working at the cruise office in Whitehorse yesterday and during my 15-minute commute back to Mary Lake got a bit distracted by some photo ops. That made me think about the difference between a Whitehorse commute and what it’s like in some...
How Smoky is my World?
Well, the first photo below was shot on Friday, the one below it was shot from the same location (the Canada Games Centre) an hour ago. The road running from side to side is the Alaska Highway (Alaska is to the left), downtown Whitehorse is ahead and...
Our Smoky World
Our good luck couldn’t last – I’m amazed that it lasted as long as it did. The negative side to the hot, dry summers I love is that the forests go up in flames. The Yukon, Alaska and British Columbia are all covered in smoke now. U...
Forest Fires and Airplanes
Although there have been some worries, the Yukon has been exceptionally lucky this summer – lots of hot, sunny days with few forest fires. Only Dawson has significant fires burning – lightning has, I believe, caused all of them this year....
CC-177 Globemaster in Whitehorse
After dropping our cat Latimer off at the vet’s this morning, Cathy and I went for breakfast at the airport to calm down. While we were sitting there, a Boeing Globemaster landed – and though I always have my camera with me, today I didn&...
Mega-Chopper Returns
Thanks to fellow Whitehorse blogger Meandering Michael, I was at the airport at sunrise today to get some more photos of an Mi-26T helicopter, the largest current-production helicopter in the world. The last time this aircraft was in Whitehorse (the ...
Sourdough Rendezvous Morning
Even with the snow falling heavily, I figured that there would be some interesting action at the airport, rationalizing that flying in crap like this would be good training for military crews. So, with the snow 6-6½ inches deep on my driveway (m...
The Yukon’s Winter Air Show
The Sourdough Rendezvous, our annual late-winter craziness in Whitehorse, is now on. Today was a holiday, and there was a huge variety of things to do around town, but our focus today was the arrival of the first aircraft for the 37th Yukon Sourdough...
The Yukon Quest - GO Huskies!!
Yesterday was the start of the Yukon Quest, our 1,000-mile sled dog race that runs from Whitehorse to Fairbanks. This was a particularly exciting one for me, mostly because it’s the first time since 2003 that I’ve been able to attend (in ...
Flying With the Super-Rich
Many of you in Whitehorse will have seen the large private jet that sat at the airport for about 10 days as big-game hunting season began. It was a Bombardier BD-700-1A10 Global Express owned by a charter company from Spain. Did you wonder what a bir...
