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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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A Railway History Day at Myra Canyon
One of the highlights of the Okanagan Valley for anyone with an interest in history has to be the Myra Canyon section of the former Kettle Valley Railway. Now a hiking and biking trail, this 12-kilometer section of the rail line has 18 trestles and 2...
Map typo remains after 25 years
I just picked up 1:50,000 topographical maps of the Canadian part of the Chilkoot Trail, and found a major typo on a map that was printed in 1984 and corrected in 1999 (104M/14). Not only is the park not “Childkoot”, Parks Canada says tha...
Chilkoot Trail Photojournal
I’ve finally posted the photos from the Chilkoot Trail hike that Steve and I did in late July. I’ve still got a lot of captioning to do but that could take weeks yet. All of the 100+ photos have the time that they were taken noted, though...
The Chilkoot Trail
My son and I have just returned from a 3-day hike on the world-famous Chilkoot Trail. It will take a few days to put together a report in the way I did my 1997 hike of the trail, but here are a few photos from the 350 I shot. As you can see, the weat...
Extreme Day Hike – Venus Mine 1901
Everyone who has ever driven the South Klondike Highway has seen a few bits and pieces of various incarnations of the Venus silver mine – the mill is impossible to miss and some of the buildings higher up the mountain are easy to spot. There...
