Hello Everybody, We invite you to share your photos of Yukon wildlife. Email your high-resolution images with a description of what’s going on and what camera equipment you used to editor@whatsupyukon.comGolfing at Annie...
Read MoreIn the popular bowling movie Kingpin the term “munsoned” is coined by the film’s writers Peter and Bobby Farrelly to describe being up a creek without a paddle, essentially being left for dead.For the Mad Trapper Alleys in...
Read MorePeople new to outdoor activity such as hunting, hiking and camping are likely a bit more organized on the second or third trip than they were on the first one. At first the newbie often just stuffs the pack and gear boxes in no...
Read More“I don’t really believe in that stuff,” a coworker says, when I ask if he’s ever had his tarot read. A year ago I might have said something similar. I wouldn’t have been telling the whole truth, though, because at that point I...
Read MoreMy sister Marion Dale and I share many wonderful childhood memories. One of our favourites is the summers we spent with our Great Auntie Kate. In her 70’s when we visited she raised sheep on a family farm near Renfrew, Ontario....
Read MoreConquering exotic culinary worlds is exhilarating, but the dispiriting lack of some foods can make home feel very far away, indeed.For some people, a curious thing may happen once they relocate. They may develop a taste for...
Read MoreWhen I first began eating wild mushrooms, I was studying squirrels. I watched which mushrooms they picked to stash in trees, and figured that whichever ones they ate were probably not (or not very) poisonous. These days I know a...
Read MoreIt’s the fall season, which means two things: the slow-creep of cold weather and a near-existential dread of the aforementioned.It also means, for thousands of Yukoners, a frantic dash to enjoy those last, fleeting moments...
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