Our last night on the Wheaton river had finally come. I wasn’t quite ready for it. I’d gotten used to ‘off the grid’ life. Storing perishable items in a cooler on the front porch had become normal. I was okay with not having phone reception. In fact, the lack of electricity meant that my mobile battery was always dead anyway, so it didn’t really phase me… Read more →
Tag: Northern Lights
Day 5: Until the Fog Clears, 10 Winter Days in the Yukon
It was killing us. The few times we found WiFi, our Instagram and Twitter feeds were full of Aurora sightings. We couldn’t figure out why we were so unlucky. Why weren’t we seeing them too? According to the Weather Channel, the fog in the air was due to the recent, abrupt changes in Weather. When we first arrived in Whitehorse, it was the… Read more →
Winter in the Yukon, Epic Northern Lights and Long Nights (Timelapse)
Check out this timelapse of the Northern lights I took in the Yukon Territory over Christmas and New Years (2014/2015) near Wheaton River Wilderness Retreat and Fish Lake. For higher quality, see it here on Vimeo. Read more →
Day 1: The Cabin, 10 Winter Days in the Yukon
Wild. Rugged. Majestic. The first words that come to mind as our Boeing 737 Air North aircraft descends to land in Whitehorse, between huge mountain peaks, on the only stretch of tarmac visibly cleared of snow. This is “The Yukon”, a far-removed territory in Northern Canada that I’ve heard so much about. A place, I’ve been told, where people return… Read more →