Between the Yukon Canoe and Kayak club kids program and favourable weather conditions, we have been out on the river in town 3-4 days a week. The Yukon river runs right through Whitehorse and is dam controlled by Yukon Energy. This means that the river levels change on an ongoing basis. Over a 2km stretch…
Whitehorse has been recognized as a top Mountain Biking destination by Outside Magazine and is consistently written up by various bike magazines. Living in the middle of 500 miles of trails that are a mix of single track, double track and old animal trails, makes us a bit spoiled. The trail system in Whitehorse and Carcross…
Yukon rivers are all snowpack fed and it’s always a crapshoot as to when the flows will happen. All paddlers in Whitehorse become amateur meteorologists come late May and there are daily discussions about comparisons of snow pack to last year and recent rain levels all in an attempt to figure out when the Wheaton…
We spent 4 days at the Lapie River in the central Yukon camping and whitewater kayaking. It was also adventure test trip #1 to work out the bugs and start the lists in earnest (what do we need to figure out or do over the next 8 weeks before we hit the road for 8…