Town & Mountain Whitehorse

... zwischen Bäumen und See. Herrlich.<br><br>Mittwoch, 7. Oktober<br>Nach dem<br>Haferflocken-Schokomilch-Frühstü ck gings ab Richtung Dawson Creek, auf der Fahrt durften wir Elche, Koyoten und Schwarzbären am Straßenrand beobachten. Dort gings dann abends auf den Alaska Highway Richtung Whitehorse. Weit kamen wir aber nicht, der Schneesturm zwang uns und unseren Van alias Heidi Hastings in die Knie und wir schlugen in einer Parkbucht ...

... got nothing from us.<br><br>Not long after we started off the next morning we were lucky to spy a timber wolf by the edge of some farmland! Unfortunately we couldn&#8217;t stop as there was a semitrailer bearing down on us from behind but we were pretty excited to have seen it.<br><br>The landscape had changed again into a flatter region with shrubs and low forest and long straight roads. It was a hot day again so mid-morning we stopped at Charlie Lake, hoping for a swim ...

... s longest wooden fish ladder. Salmon use the fish ladder to bypass the dam on the Yukon River when returning to their spawning areas.<br><br>We had a scheduled tour on the fully refurbished SS Klondike sternwheeler and following that, we drove through downtown and went to the visitors center where we were shown a 15-minute film about the Yukon. Yukoners say that if you take a sip of the water, you will never leave.<br><br>When the bus dropped ...

... A few minutes ago, I ran into the couple that did the &#8220;mosquito dance&#8221; with us at Mezidian &#8211; Randy &amp; Joanne. They were heading into town to see the sights. Hopefully, we&#8217;ll visit with them again before we leave.<br><br>July 9, 2009 (Thursday) &#8211; Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada<br><br><br><br>What a pleasant experience; getting two good night&#8217;s sleep without the sound of mosquitoes buzzing in your ears. That&#8217;s not to ...

... beautiful.<br><br>Father's Day, June 21........leaving the very muddy campground. Sky is sunny.....it's been days since we needed sun shades. Clouds are very far off......no radio, so we don't know what the weather will be. We are headed to Muncho Lake......a checkpoint during Alaska Highway construction. The road around the lake was a particular challenge. Workers had to cut their way through the lake's rocky banks ...

... up with some good friends along the way.<br><br>In some ways, this trip was a ride down memory lane.  Many many moons ago when I was a wet behind the ears eager-to-experience-everything university kid working as a summer student for Newmont Mines, I spent nearly 6 months doing geological exploration all over British Columbia -- a lot of it by rough logging roads in the middle of nowhere and some of it via helicopter into some amazingly remote and ...

... trip to Whistler in winter so we took our Tele skis and spent a day on the hill. Temps at the top were over +10 so we sweated all day as we were over dressed. Whistler itself is BIG. Even mid week in Jan there were lots of folks on the hill. Snow was Ok as there was no powder due to the weather. Skiing was OK as well and I'd have to say that Revelstoke is a better hill or at least more intimate. We did the whole tourist thing and took the new Peak to Peak ...

... out our back door. To that end one of our neighbours has a snow machine and a track setter. We went to their place for Thanksgiving and he appears to be quite keen on maintaining trails right out or door or most likely he wants me to do it. Jeez, he must think we retired types have all the time in the world...... Our curling is going well. In spite of our trip 'out' we've managed to get a lot of curling in. Our mixed team is 4 and 1. Our Thurs ...

July 23/08: Finally we are into our new digs Our landlords flew off to Europe yesterday and we promptly moved in. After living out of our camper for two months it was good to be able to unpack a lot of the stuff we brought. Funny how you can survive for two months with so few clothes. After coming back from the Takhini R. we ended up north 1.5h at a cabin on Little Braeburn Lake. Dennis and Margie Peters invited us up for a few days. This is a true cabin in the woods ...

One of the most recognized names in the Yukon is Robert Service. He spent many years in the far north and wrote poems to express his feelings about the land. One of his most famous poems is "The Cremation of Sam McGee". The poem is set on Lake Le Barge which is just outside of Whitehorse. So this was first on the list to see today since the day started out with ...