There was plenty of construction during my last leg home. It was sunny. It rained. Same ol’ story. I saw a moose though! Any ideas I had about how my…
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I’m back in the Yukon!
Every time I woke up over night, I could hear an owl hooting. I just love that sound! I stayed in the tent until after 7am this morning. Partly because…
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Back in the Yukon!
We tested out a rest area for our home base tonight but it was mid afternoon and warm so we pushed on, hoping to get a campground site instead. And…
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The Ridge Road Heritage Trail
We did it! My first overnight backpacking trip! Jeff, Hank, and I split over 50 lbs of gear and water! We walked about 28.25 km (17.5 mi) in just over…
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Northern lights – what a show tonight!
My Dad called me this evening from his van. He’s been paying attention to the solar storm going on and that there was a possibility of northern lights even down…
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Big summer plans!
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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Keno City
We’re just back from 3 nights in Keno City, Yukon with our friends and our quads (and a few side by side ATVs). What a fabulous trip! Keno is a…
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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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ATV ride to Moose Creek
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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Monday’s treasure hunt
On Sunday Jeff went on his solo caribou mission, but when he came home he was quick to tell me not to read anything into what he was going to…
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Caribou scouting trip
Jeff heard of a series of back roads and trails that could get him up to a highland area, higher than the treeline, where he could hunt woodland caribou. Despite it…
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Bears!
We went for a drive to Mayo and back today and saw 3 bears, 3 porcupines, 2 bunnies, 5 swans, and 2 ground squirrels! Here is bear #1. Definitely a…
Read MoreMy first GoPro videos
Jeff gave me a GoPro cam for my birthday!!! I have so much to learn to master this thing. Here are a couple of videos I’ve taken so far. In…
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Forty Mile – we made it!
After getting so close to the abandoned townsite of Forty Mile last weekend, we just couldn’t wait until next summer to make it all the way. We geared up with…
Read MoreSettling into Dawson City
It took 10 days to drive the 8294 km from our house in Lochaber, Nova Scotia here to our new home in Dawson City, Yukon. I’ll update you with all the…
Read MoreI know you were wondering how to pan for gold
Luckily for you, Garrett, the makers of my metal detector, got Freddie Dodge to give us all a lesson on panning for gold. Freddie Dodge is on the Gold Rush…
Read MoreObsessed with all things Yukon
We’ve been home for less than two weeks, but we both spend our days trying to figure out how to get back to the Yukon. Dawson City, specifically, for me….
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Vacation 2014: Whitehorse, Yukon
The next morning we left the campground for the day, but decided to spend our last night in our van there again the next night. It was a nice big campground…
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Vacation 2014: Skagway, Alaska -> Whitehorse, Yukon
After walking the main street shops in Skagway, we decided there was nothing else we wanted to do there and would start making our way back to Whitehorse (and the…
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Vacation 2014: Dawson City -> Chicken, Alaska -> Haines, Alaska
It was hard to leave our beloved Dawson City, but we knew we had so much more we wanted to see in our second week of our vacation. We headed…
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