I landed in Whitehorse on Friday of the May long weekend. Nissan picked me up at the airport and took me back to their shop to retrieve my truck. Knowing…
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Camping week
We’re just back from 7 nights of camping around the Yukon! This is going to be one long, photo heavy post, so hope you’re on fibre optic internet. We took…
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Two night solo camping expedition
With the weather forecast looking too warm to hunt, and Jeff’s hunting buddy needing to postpone their trip a week anyway, I threw together a last minute camping trip for…
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Camping and yet another firewood expedition… well two
This past weekend was the Yukon’s August long weekend, celebrating Discovery Day – the anniversary of the discovery of gold that kickstarted the Klondike Gold Rush 124 years ago. We…
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Weekend ride to Matson Creek
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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Camping in July
This past weekend we headed back to our camping spot for a couple nights to get away and enjoy the summer. It was much warmer – we didn’t need the…
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Kicking off summer with a road trip and camping adventure
Last week Jeff took a week of vacation so we could start the summer off right! Our adventures started with an overnight trip down to Whitehorse so he could pick…
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Solo camping expedition
I’ve been camping my whole life – as a kid with my parents, with my girl guide troop, with my friends, with my coworkers, with my husband, and reflecting on…
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Book Review: Beyond the Trees
This book tells of a remarkable journey across the Canadian Arctic, by a driven, determined, modern day explorer. Adam Shoalts set out on a journey in 2017 to cross the…
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More cranberries, camping, colonoscopy, Hank, and smoke
On Saturday we headed back out to our berry covered wilderness, and gathered more cranberries! There were way more where we stopped this time, and some of them were ripe….
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A snowy August long weekend spent along a river
On Friday after work, we drove up to one of our favourite spots, about 100 kilometres up the Dempster Highway for a weekend with friends and to try out our…
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Camping… or is it “glamping” now?
We had plans to go camping about 90 minutes north of here this weekend with some friends. This weekend is a long weekend in the Yukon. It is “Disco Days”…
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Our weekend camping in Tombstone – great wildlife viewing!
We went up the Dempster Highway to go camping this weekend. This is a remote gravel road that goes from 40km east of Dawson City, up north, ending in Inuvik, 736km later….
Read More10 years ago – Camping at MacGregor Point
If my memory is correct, it was 10 years ago that Dad, Julie, Brian, Leanne, and I (with Winger and Surf) went camping for the May long weekend at MacGregor…
Read MoreCamping
We spent 2 nights in Gros Morne in the northern Shallow Bay campground, and 2 nights in Butterpot Provincial Park near St. John’s. Here are some camping photos: This site…
Read MoreGros Morne National Park
Well I wasn’t able to charge up my laptop’s battery often enough to keep a daily diary, so instead I’ll post photos from each place we visited. With 600 photos…
Read MoreMy Impressions of Newfoundland & our Vacation & learned Rules of the Road
-everyone is a “Buddy” or a “bud” or “love” -there are no insects around to bite you when you camp in September! -4 sleeping bags are better than 1 and…
Read MoreLettuce, Newfoundland, busy, piles of wood, and a snake
Quick update: -planning a trip to Newfoundland, camping, in September. Maybe we should call it our Honeymoon? Or will that Christmas we spent in a small hotel room in Quebec…
Read MoreBack Early from Camping
We’re back a day early from camping. It poured all day today and unfortunately the old seams on Dad’s old tent just didn’t hold up. The drip turned to drips…
Read MoreCamping Tomorrow
Herc* and I are finally going camping tomorrow! We’ve wanted to go so many times, but something would always come up, the dogs would be broken, or company was coming…
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