Aussie Girl Columnist Kylie Campbell is an Australian writer and photographer exploring the Yukon. She has completely fall in love with this place and has decided to call it home. Kylie takes on freelance stories as well ranging from event coverage to business profiles.
Issue: 2018-02-28, PHOTO: Kylie Campbell
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.com more
Issue: 2018-11-21, PHOTO: Jim Bishop
December 1 is Global Fat Bike Day, a day to celebrate all things fat bike-related. But what exactly is fat biking and why get into it? I caught up with Jonah Clark, owner of Icycle sports, to find out about their celebration and why fat-biking is... more
Issue: 2018-11-14, PHOTO: Courtesy of Yukon Backcountry Skiing
Yukon Backcountry Skiing’s owner, Claude Vallier, introduces his two girls, Kiona and Heidi, to the world by making a movie of skiing the wild Yukon mountains. “I didn’t really want to make a movie, but after participating in other movies and TV... more
Issue: 2018-11-14, PHOTO: Joe Mabel via Wikimedia Commons
The Japanese Canadian Association of Yukon (JCAY) will be hosting events this November in recognition of the 30th anniversary of the success of the Redress campaign in 1988. Fumi Torigai, former president of JACY, for 9 years, now community... more
Issue: 2018-10-31, PHOTO: Bill Glude
The famous White Pass & Yukon Route (WP&YR) Railway is a busy and beautiful journey through the White Pass of Alaska and the Yukon. Every year, as Alaska and the Yukon emerge from winter, so does the work to make sure these trains can carry... more
Issue: 2018-10-31, PHOTO: Tyler Nichol
Every October, Mount Sima starts snow production and welcomes hundreds of athletes from all over Canada for pre-season training in November. Whitehorse, Yukon, is the perfect location and climate to have early snow production to build the national... more
Issue: 2018-10-24, PHOTO: Pixabay
Halloween is most certainly a North American pastime, but this tradition has slowly morphed into a worldwide event for both kids and adults. I love Halloween ... Ever since I was a little kid, I envied the kids I saw, on TV and in movies, who got... more
Issue: 2018-10-24, PHOTO: Kylie Campbell
I'm not much of a poet, but here’s something I wrote while on the trail, with a picture at the Chilkoot Pass summit, looking down towards Dyea. more
Issue: 2018-10-10, PHOTO: Elise Giordano
The Nude & Rude Revue started with two best friends, Taylor Vidic and Cameron Brockett, and their love of performance art. Vidic, 25, was born and raised in Juneau, Alaska, and met Brockett during high school in Juneau. Brockett was born in... more
Issue: 2018-10-03, PHOTO: Kylie Campbell
I first arrived in the Yukon on April 30, 2017—springtime. Throughout the summer, Yukoners would catch my accent and ask where I was from, to which I would reply, “Australia.” “Oh my, why would you move here?” they would say, as though they... more
Issue: 2018-09-19, PHOTO: Kylie Campbell
It’s May long weekend and we’re driving to Skagway, and it seems as though most of Whitehorse has decided to do the same with a queue of 20 vehicles at the U.S. border… It was a warm evening, and we went to Starfire, in Skagway, to enjoy some Thai... more
Issue: 2018-09-19, PHOTO: Inga Petri
Born in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Antoinette GreenOliph came to Ontario at 13 years of age. She recalls that her family was the only black family in the neighbourhood and recollects the awkward questions and excluded feelings of growing... more
Issue: 2018-09-19, PHOTO: Tanja Tiziana
The Queer Songbook Orchestra is a Toronto-based 12-piece chamber pop ensemble making their Yukon debut on September 30. The group formed in 2014 and has been dedicated to exploring and elevating queer narrative in pop music. more
Issue: 2018-09-12, PHOTO: Kylie Campbell
Last year, when I arrived in the Yukon, I saw an article on the Ember Fire Academy, a Yukon Government Protective Service program. There were images of women breaking apart cars and fighting fires and I thought, Wow, what an incredible experience... more
Issue: 2018-09-05, PHOTO: Kylie Campbell
The Canadian Ski Patrol is a national organization is composed of more than 5,000 volunteers from coast to coast, in Canada, in 59 zones and nine divisions. The Yukon Ski Patrol is part of that non-profit organization providing a variety of... more
Issue: 2018-09-05, PHOTO: Kylie Campbell
It’s Wednesday afternoon, the sun is warm and not a cloud in the sky as avid mountain bikers unload their bikes and prepare themselves for Mount Sima downhill riding. It’s my first time riding down what is described to me as a “downhill course... more
Issue: 2018-08-29, PHOTO: Kylie Campbell
“Miss, where are you living?” (U.S. border agent) “Whitehorse.” (Me) “Ohh ... you’re coming to eat Thai food.” “What?” (Me, looking puzzled) more
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How to survive and experience world-famous mountain biking trails on Montana Mountain in Carcross. more
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We live in the wilderness (in case you didn’t notice). Literally, we have 12 square kilometres per person of wild landscapes, untamed animals and often dodgy cell reception—and that can be all within city limits. The City of Whitehorse has over 700 k more
Issue: 2018-07-25, PHOTO: Kylie Campbell
The Yukon Fish and Game Association hosted the Yukon Outdoor Woman (YOW) Program, a weekend where 20 women participated in outdoor workshops, in the bush, to further develop skills and knowledge... more
Issue: 2018-07-25, PHOTO: courtesy of Kraken Charters
Captain Chad Clark has always been a fisherman, and it’s clear to see why (with his excitement and passion) as he takes you out on the beautiful waters outside of the Haines Small Boat Harbour. “This is the first time I have made a career out of... more