Yukon Outside
Yukon Outdoors and Outside!
Outside could mean camping, cycling, canoeing, hiking, fishing, hunting ...we do it all here. The Yukon slang term "Outside" means any location outside Yukon - we Yukoners live on the inside. Living on the inside is an unspoken understanding to one another of the remote lifestyle we have chosen to live together. You'll find wildlife stories here too! After all, our critters prefer living outdoors most of the time.
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Issues: 2020-03-25, PHOTO: Pixabay
Muskrat season
I’m glad spring is almost here. It was a tough winter. I almost got lost in a blizzard trying to find my car in the Walmart parking lot. In the delta, March meant one thing—muskrat trapping season was open. And trapped muskrat pelts fetched damned... Read more
Mar. 25, 2020
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Issue: 2020-03-18, PHOTO: Provided by Hugh Copland
Asbestos, the miracle mineral with a dark side
Throughout history, asbestos had been known as the miracle mineral due to its unique properties. The ancient Greeks wove wicks out of it for their oil lamps. They were known as the eternal lights because the wick did not burn down... Read more
Mar. 18, 2020
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Issue: 2020-03-18, PHOTO: Dan Davidson
The Percy DeWolfe committee is ready for its last race, but the event will carry on
The Percy DeWolfe Memorial Mail Race didn’t start out as a race 44 years ago, but it soon became a qualifying run for the larger races. The late John Gould wrote that it “began back in 1977 as a way to honour the legendary Percy DeWolfe, who... Read more
Mar. 18, 2020
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Issue: 2020-03-11, PHOTO: Lauren Humble
Japan must-sees
It's hard to pick out highlights when the whole country is beautiful, but I’ll do my best to separate out a few must-sees. Read more
Mar. 11, 2020
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Issue: 2020-03-04, Credit: Lauren Humble
Japan in a nutshell
I had high hopes for Japan and my expectations were still blown out of the water. I don’t think I could be more in support of absolutely everyone making time to go explore this very special place. I have always had a soft spot for Asia; its way of... Read more
Mar. 04, 2020
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Issue: 2020-02-19, PHOTO: Dianne Homan
Small world, eh?
It’s a small world, at least along one of its dimensions – the line between Canada and Spain. There I was in Spain a few months ago walking the Camino de Santiago, a 1200 year old pilgrimage route, and already I’d met an orthodontist from Ottawa... Read more
Feb. 19, 2020
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Issue: 2020-02-12, PHOTO: courtesy of Government of Yukon
Here come the mushers
The Yukon Quest has been described as the hardest sled dog race in the world. Mushers and their teams of up to 14 canine athletes travel 1,000 miles of wild and difficult terrain between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Whitehorse, Yukon. And they do it in... Read more
Feb. 12, 2020
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Issue: 2020-02-05, PHOTO: courtesy of Log Cabin Ski Society
Get ready to howl
Buckwheat Donahue arrived in Skagway from Colorado in the 1980s. “He made an immediate impact in the establishments on Broadway,” said William Brady, secretary of the Log Cabin Ski Society. “After a winter in town, he famously said he’d like to... Read more
Feb. 05, 2020
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Issue: 2020-02-05, PHOTO: courtesy of Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous
Rendezvous struts its stuff
The theme of this year’s Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous is local, community participation. With a theme like that, it makes sense that when designing the festival’s first-ever stand-alone fashion show, the organizers would look to the local design... Read more
Feb. 05, 2020
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Issue: 2019-12-23, PHOTO: Lisa Martin
All about the red fox
My first encounters with foxes were back in 1959, 1960 and 1961. This was in eastern Ontario when I was a conservation officer. At the time, the dreaded rabies disease was crossing Canada. Read more
Dec. 23, 2019
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