Hot Springing to Calgary
Usually, when visiting family in Calgary, we make a beeline up to Highway 1 and make the direct drive in approximately 7 hours. This time, we were overdue for some […]
Category Archives: Never a Dull Moment
Four-Lake Cycle & Fall-Line Hiking
After spending a very busy time in the city visiting with family and friends through the Thanksgiving weekend, we were able to spend a few glorious days in Whistler. The […]
Wild Coast
As summer gave way to fall, we found ourselves taking advantage of the glorious weather for a mini-camping tour on Southern Vancouver Island. While work took us to Victoria, the […]
Due South
Getting home meant a series of progressively better highways: a. Tuktoyaktuk highway to Inuvik b. Dempster highway to Dawson City c. Klondike highway to Whitehorse d. Alaska highway to B.C./Yukon […]
Arctic Perspectives
While the Dempster Highway has been around a while, in late 2017, the Tuk highway was opened, a road that connects Inuvik to the Arctic Ocean at Tuktoyaktuk. Probably Canada’s […]
Solstice to Chicken
Fairbanks! We arrived June 21st for the beginning of a 4-day long Midnight Sun Festival. The above photo was taken at midnight from atop a local mountain. On this day, […]
Denali
“The high one.” We decided that if Stuart were to be named by the Dena’aina people, he might be named Denali. And we managed to be part of the […]
On Switzerland, Ice, and Fish
Once again detouring away from the Alaska Highway, at Tok, we headed south, first to Valdez and then to the Kenai peninsula. Our longest drive to date was from Valdez […]
Kluane
Picking up the Alaska Highway at Haines Junction, Yukon meant we were at the jumping off point for exploring Kluane National Park and Preserve, Kluane Lake, and the Champagne & […]
Dipping into Alaska
The Alaska Highway took us as far as Carcross, Yukon (having seen a brown bear en route) when we decided to detour once again as we dipped south into the […]
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