Destination: Montana Creek

Posted on June 1, 2026

Our first quad/ATV adventure of 2026 was one to remember! On Sunday, Jeff and I drove out to Bear Creek (about a 10km quad ride), partially on the highway, to…

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Adams Dam

Posted on August 5, 2024

I imagine few people have visited the Adams Dam on Adams Creek, a tributary of Bonanza Creek. Maybe some people don’t even know it exists. I didn’t. Jeff has known…

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Keno long weekend adventures

Posted on July 3, 2023

We returned to the small, nearly abandoned and forgotten, town of Keno, Yukon for the Canada Day long weekend. The trip almost didn’t happen for us. Jeff’s truck has broken…

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The hunt for an old cemetery

Posted on June 5, 2023

Back in the Klondike Gold Rush, Dawson City wasn’t the only town around here. The town of Grand Forks sprung up at the confluence of Bonanza Creek and Eldorado Creek,…

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Big summer plans!

Posted on January 12, 2023

Part of living in the subartic is spending all your winter dreaming up big summer plans to squeeze into a couple months of our good weather. And then spend the…

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Muddy quad ride

Posted on May 24, 2021

It’s the Great Canadian May 2-4 long weekend! And most of it has been cold, rainy, windy, cold enough to have the heat on, and even use an electric blanket…

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Another quad ride in the snow

Posted on May 3, 2021

We took another quad ride yesterday (Sunday) and were joined by a bunch of our quadding friends. We had 5 individual ATVs, and two side-by-sides. We re-visited a bunch of…

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First quad ride of 2021

Posted on April 25, 2021

A sunny Sunday afternoon? Sounds like a good day to fire up the quads and go for an adventure! Jeff and I headed out Bonanza Road and left the road…

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ATV ride to Moose Creek

Posted on September 6, 2020

It may be fall, and only 4 degrees C this morning, but the weather forecast looked great for another ATV ride with our friends. Last night we loaded my quad…

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Weekend ride to Matson Creek

Posted on August 9, 2020

Jeff has been talking about taking a trip on his ATV to Matson Creek for months. It started as an idea of where to hunt this fall, but then a…

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Weekend of exploration

Posted on June 1, 2020

On Saturday Jeff and I drove the goldfield roads for hours exploring, and then we went on an ATV ride with our friends for over 7 hours yesterday visiting even…

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Backroad adventures

Posted on June 10, 2019

Yesterday was a beautiful day, and 8 of us took our four wheelers for an adventure. We were out for about 6 hours, visiting a part of the Yukon back…

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Spent a day on my ATV

Posted on May 16, 2019

Yesterday I took a full day ATV industrial operators safety course from the Canadian Safety Council. It was arranged through our local college with an instructor brought up from Whitehorse….

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Great day for quading!

Posted on April 14, 2019

It’s been almost a year since I was strong enough to drive my quad/ATV. Today I hopped back on! A couple of our friends joined us. It was pretty chilly…

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Now it’s ready for a service

Posted on May 7, 2018

Jeff is heading back to Whitehorse for a week for work, and since my new quad needs a mandatory servicing at 240 km, we figured we better go for a…

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My new ride

Posted on May 3, 2018

Can you believe I have my own ATV now? It is a Yamaha Kodiak. It’s a 450, so smaller and less power than Jeff’s 700, but just perfect for me!…

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Who wants THAT?

Posted on February 11, 2012

40-50mm of rain coming tonight, and tomorrow it is going to freeze. Any chance we can cancel this forecast and select another? Update: Jeff is trying out the chains he…

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