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...
Jul
24
2015
Settling into Dawson City
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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...
Nov
04
2014
I know you were wondering how to pan for gold
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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...
Jul
11
2014
Obsessed with all things Yukon
by Lisa
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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....
Vacation 2014: Whitehorse, Yukon
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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...
Vacation 2014: Skagway, Alaska -> Whitehorse, Yukon
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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...
Vacation 2014: Dawson City -> Chicken, Alaska -> Haines, Alaska
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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...
Vacation 2014: Inuvik -> Dawson City
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Our trip to Tuktoyaktuk was cancelled due to the low clouds, so at about 5:30pm we decided to head down the Dempster instead of spending...
Vacation 2014: The Dempster Highway -> Inuvik
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The Dempster Highway starts 40km south of Dawson City, and goes up past the Arctic Circle to Inuvik, North West Territories. It is 671 km...