Last May, my friend Kevin and I had an initial look at a mining trail leading up a spectacular ridge at the south end of Tutshi Lake. We didn’t get very far before deep snow halted further exploring, and although we planned to return in late summer, that didn’t...

I went on another 4-hour tour of the Whitehorse Copper Belt with Tim Green on August 8th. This one began with an in-depth look of one of Gladiator Metals’ exploratory drill rigs that’s currently operating 2 km from my home, then continued on to the Whitehorse Copper properties that...

Yukon Environment held their first “Guided forest bath” the evening of August 4th along the Millennium Trail in Riverdale. Nine people showed up of the 12 who registered, and I think it went very well – well enough to do again, I hope, as it “sold out” (it was...

On August 2st, I drove up Haeckel Hill for a look at the four new (2023) wind turbines and the old forestry lookout tower. I’ve been up a few times, but have never posted here about it before. The road up Haeckel Hill (Haeckel Tower Road) is rough, but...

A few things stacked up yesterday to lure me into Whitehorse last night. First, I had seen two corporate jets I didn’t recognize when I was in town getting groceries, without a camera. Then a friend messaged me that four black helicopters had arrived. And finally I saw a...

Back in April, I built two boreal owl nesting boxes, hoping I could convince an owl that was spending a lot of time within a few feet of our home, to stay and raise a family. The boreal owl didn’t stay, but one of the nesting boxes is now...

I took a week off from hiking when we got home from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, but I really want to keep the momentum I had going, so have done three really good hikes the past three days. On Tuesday (July 14th), I walked 14.3 km from home to...