White Horse, Yukon Territory, 1899. Within a year the community had been moved to the other side of the Yukon River, and it would be almost 60 years before a community developed on this side, with a bridge to access it.

Was this the world's first podcast? Connecting 10,000 Ford dealers in 41 cities for an hour in 1934! Using 15,000 miles of wire and 250 phone company employees.

Hiking in places like Mine Mountain just north of Skagway, Alaska, requires well-developed off-trail navigation skills.

New Zealand has some bloody awesome bus tours. From 90 Mile Beach on the west coast of the North Island, where the speed limit is 100m km/h, we went up Te Paki Stream to do some dune-surfing ❤️

Evening at Dinkelsbühl, Germany - the Goldener Hirsch Hotel. #Kodachrome, 1991.

Second-growth rainforest, Chilliwack, BC. #Kodachrome, 8-second exposure, 1989.

I'm pleased to see one of my favourite historians describing another little-known (or long-forgotten) bit of Vancouver-area history, including acknowledgement and perhaps even celebration of the fact that nudity was common in counter-culture communities of that period. evelazarus.com/a-short-hist...

A muddy day exploring along the Mackenzie Highway in the Northwest Territories. What an amazing trip this was. After 9 days on the road, during which I rode 5,127 kilometers, I had 1,166 photos in my file after editing.

A calm August morning on Alberta's North Saskatchewan River.

A little blog post (13 photos and an 80-second video) about yesterday's drive in search of sun in the Yukon - explorenorthblog.com/in-search-of...

If you think the New City City mayor election was wild this year, check out the 1933 one! I just came across this in the "Radio News Briefs" section of The Whitehorse Star.

The fascists now in charge aren't big on logic. Or facts. Or empathy. Or truth in general. Or science...

Getting a car from Dawson to Whitehorse, Yukon, in 1933 sometimes required the car to be disassembled and carried across the Yukon River piece by piece by canoe! Ah yes, the good old days! 😂

Here's a minute of icy zen from my drive today... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tcz...

It was grooming day today ❤️

"The Cut" drops the Alaska Highway down into theMacDonald River valley via an impressive canyon at Km 602, which is 10 km north of Summit Lake. This photo was shot from a abandoned section of the highway.

Williscroft Canyon is the most dramatic one I've found in the Kluane Lake area of the Yukon. There was a time when I might have tried to get past that rock, but those days are over 😀

One of the realities of climate change in the Yukon is that the clear skies and deep cold of 30 years ago are gone - winters are much warmer and the skies are often cloudy. That makes a full-spectrum SAD light an important self-care tool for some of us to deal with the darkness.

The Hedley Nickel Plate Mine Road, BC.

Lucky Four Mine, Chilliwack, BC. #Kodachrome, September 1989.

Dean Blundell's post this morning is beautiful. It's about "legitimacy" as a writer. He says in part: "The most legitimate thing in the world - and the only currency that matters in my realm - are the people I serve who invest in me." deanblundell.substack.com/p/a-personal...

This is a plan the world will applaud.

Hiking to a small cemetery along Windy Arm, a kilometer south of the Yukon-BC border.

Hiking the Chilkoot Trail on July 20th. Ain't no Summer up that way!

The 1930 Living Room ❤️

Women in aviation, 1929. This photo and story about Peggy Paxon and Lucille Wallingford appeared in over 100 newspapers starting on Aug 26, another 100+ without the photo. Then they vanished and set off a police hunt. After being found, they just vanished from the newspapers.

"Suddenly – and awfully – the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people ... looked as though it were government policy." From a front-line doctor in the UK who lived it, the horrors of the early days of COVID-19 for medical staff. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Rich people in 1929. Today, if they hoard rather than share willingly, #TAXTHERICH!

Success. Over the past couple of days I've built a ramp for my old dog Bella. I walked her down and up it 4 times on a leash, then blocked the stairs so she has to use it, and she's already fine with it. There's nothing I wouldn't do for my little girl ❤️

Canadians - if you have a Vivint home security system, you should call the new owner, Telus, soon. We've now signed up for a much-upgraded full-coverage system including a camera for just over half the price we were paying Vivint without the camera.

On June 21, 1985, I was on the shore of the Arctic Ocean at Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, with my own plane, on a trip that changed my life - I learned where I belong.

Patti Page with her new Golden Anniversary edition Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 Convertible in Banff Blue. Holiday magazine, June 1958. The height of the days of The American Dream for many people.

I love spindrift days in the Kluane Range (as long as a warm car isn't far away).

I'm always honoured to be asked to supply photos for calendars being produced by non-profits. This photo of the Alaska Highway at Christmas Creek (just east of Kluane Lake, Yukon), shot in February 2024, will be on the calendars being produced by the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE).

Nude hiking - connect with Nature and yourself. I discovered this 37 years ago during a hike at Chilliwack, BC. About 24 years ago, I built a website about nude hiking in the Yukon and Alaska (that Googles very well, and most naturist websites link to it).

If the clouds do actually leave this evening, this will be a fine bit of winter - we only have 5-6 inches of snow.

Clifford “Buzz” Grambo is today's American hero ❤️ - #RESIST! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I think many of my friends will enjoy reading about longevity in Canada - here's a paywalled Globe and Mail article I'm allowed to send as a gift - www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/3db7486...

The staff at Raven Recycling in Whitehorse, Yukon, have been wearing masks for a long time - I don't remember when the practice began. Yesterday, the person who helped me cash in my bottles thanked me for wearing my N95. I see reports of people being harassed for wearing one - this is better ❤️

This amb"ass"ador needs to be expelled from my country that he hates. #ExpelHoekstra

The package said it would make 30 cookies. It made 13 for me - go big or go home 😁

Blowdown Pass, British Columbia.

Morning at George F. L. Charles Airport at Castries, Saint Lucia.

In 1972 I bought a former Vancouver City Police paddy wagon and built what we called a "shaggin' wagon" in those days 😆. It was very comfortable in the back, with a propane fireplace, and I did some great trips in it, from Vancouver to as far as Yellowstone and Ensenada, Mexico.

A year ago, my daughter and I got matching tattoos at a shop in Yuma. It was a spur-of-the-moment idea, to celebrate an amazing road trip we were on - it was my first and probably only tattoo. I had rented a BMW convertible in Phoenix, and we did a big desert wander for a week ❤️

From my collection, this wonderful Canadian Pacific ad featuring a Bristol Britannia jetprop is from the June 1958 issue of Holiday magazine.

I'm almost finished a major page about a flying boat that first flew in 1929 (the Eastman E-2 Sea Rover), but I keep getting distracted by the wonderful car ads of that period.

Now this is an awesome GoFundMe!!!! #SlavaUkrainii ❤️

Whatcha doin' down there, Dad? #DogsofBluesky

Wow - Whitehorse is reporting sustained south wind of 42 km/h, while 15 km away we don't have even a breath of wind to knock the snow off the trees. It's a very pleasant -7C. Even my little dog Tucker is okay with it.