I was sure we were destined for that same little rec site north of Dease Lake that we stayed at last time, but instead Jeff seemed game to try the…
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Fish jumping, fire’s burning, bugs are swarming
We decided to not veer off course to visit Prince Rupert or Kitimat. While we’d like to visit them, that’s a lot of driving that requires the same road in…
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The ground is crawling!
We are staying in Beaumont Provincial Park tonight, near Fort Fraser, on the shores of Fraser Lake, west of Prince George about an hour and a half. I remember reading…
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Marble River Rec Site
We packed up this morning and left Port Hardy. But not quickly. We had to make a million stops, like the busy Co-op where a totally swamped young employee refilled…
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Visiting Linda and Geoff near Lumby
Hank had a restless night. Was the dinette (converted into a bed) too hard? Was it skipping a walk today? Dunno. But his leg is a bit better. It looks…
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Day full of worry
This morning we got up to a beautiful blue sky. I waited until after 8am to find the comfort station and a free shower. No line! I guessed the best…
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I rode on a mini train!
I was looking on the map for an off leash dog park for Hank to run in in Prince George when I noticed a Train and Forestry Museum! What could…
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We’re on the road!
Jeff, Hank, and I are hunkering down in our new truck camper in the Pelly Crossing Campground, just off the Klondike Highway. It’s a nice and convenient campground. Free too!…
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Video recap of our expedition
We didn’t purposely make a video of our trip down the Yukon River, but I used Apple’s Live Photo feature on my iPhone so I had hundreds of ~2 second…
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Yukon River Expedition – Day Six
Oh boy, what a morning face! We slept in, until almost 7! It was a good sleep, well, on and off. My air mattress didn’t hit the magic perfect density…
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Yukon River Expedition – Day Five
I was up at 4am to pee so I pulled the fly off the tent and released all the flies! I thought this was a genius, but they still all…
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Yukon River Expedition – Day Four
What a wonderful sleep I had! Finally! I can’t even explain why, but I felt safer here, more comfortable and relaxed. Maybe it was because we could hear trucks from…
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Yukon River Expedition – Day Three
We got up at 6am. Jeff had been awake for awhile and said he heard a moose out in the swampy river behind our high perched site. I was so…
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Yukon River Expedition – Day Two
We were up at 5am. It was a hot night when we crawled into the tent the night before, but we both woke up under our sleeping bags so it…
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Yukon River Expedition – Day One
Last Saturday we departed on a multi-day expedition to travel the Yukon River from Whitehorse to Dawson City by boat. 740 km / 460 miles. I’m not going to call…
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May 2-4 in Ontario!
I flew into Toronto a week early for Grandma’s funeral, because the summertime Air North flight through Yellowknife is so much nicer than flying through Vancouver (and usually needing to…
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Keno long weekend adventures
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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River broke, flooding, sandbagging, and camping
The Yukon River broke on Tuesday, May 9th at 5:31pm. I had been back and forth to the river all day watching the progress, but I was hosting an online…
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Last minute, solo, autumn adventure
I headed north on the Dempster this week for a couple nights solo. Something unexpected, work related, was really bothering me, something I could do nothing about, so I decided…
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Camping, and BEAR!
For the Discovery Day long weekend here in the Yukon, we went camping to the Five Mile Territorial Park near Mayo. Not only was the park not full, so we…
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