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 →
Category: Travel Blog: Notes On The Road
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 4: Annie Lake & Snowfall, 10 Winter Days in the Yukon
With fog overhead, thick forest and partial-mountain views all around, it was hard to really process where we were. As we walked on top of Annie Lake, a frozen lake in the Wheaton River valley, we finally got a zoomed-out view of the landscape that has surrounded us for the past 3 days. We stumbled across Trapper Ray’s abandoned hut. The scattered belongings had me… Read more →
Day 3: A Traveler’s Christmas, 10 Winter Days in the Yukon
I’ve always wondered what a Traveler’s Christmas would be like. You know, the kind where everyone feels that communal sense of displacement and homelessness and can temporarily fill that void by sharing stories and traditions from their home country with other traveler’s from around the World? Well, this year I got to experience it. We experienced our first White Christmas… Read more →
Day 2: Snowmobiling, 10 Winter Days in the Yukon
After two failed attempts at seeing Aurora Borealis, our Northern adventure was in serious need of a little excitement and adrenalin. We needed to get things moving. So it was time to get skidooing! A skidoo, as Canadians call it, is more commonly referred to as a snowmobile. It is basically a motorbike built specifically for snowy terrain equipped with… 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 →