Month: July 2013

We’re at Watson Lake and Tom is draped over his tail cone in order to hold it down, while the helicopter lands at the fuel tanks. Show Full Size Photo

We are just about to turn the corner and head down towards Teslin and ran into some brief showers and yes…..some wet snow. The good news was that we turned away from it about 5 […]

We didn’t necessarily want to fly the same route, but out here there’s not that many choices. H’mmmm clouds in the distance. Show Full Size Photo

We left Whitehorse about 7:30 am so that we could fly in some smoother air, in theory! It was 7 degrees at 5500′ Show Full Size Photo

We spent the day in Whitehorse so that the ladies could catch their flights and we spent our time doing some maintenance on the aircraft. Victor Menkal, a Zenair 701 Builder, was kind enough to […]

The controller was great in helping us find the airport and turned on the runway lights to make sure we could see it ok. (it’s 18:30) A Super Cub pilot, about 20 minutes before us, […]

We’re about 20 NM out of Whitehorse, so we slipped to the left over Lefarge Lake to run up the valley to the airport. The temperature was 27 degrees in Dawson City and 14 in […]

We had to stop at Carmacks and we’re happy to run into a couple of local pilots that arranged for a little fuel. We wanted to make sure we had extra in case we had […]

We left Dawson City about 13:30 on July 1st to head back to Whitehorse. We felt it was the best place, in order for our wives to get their flights to Vancouver and Toronto respectively. […]

This is one of 7 river boats in the paddlewheel graveyard, located just outside Dawson City along the river. When the highway was completed in 1953 these boats became obsolete. Show Full Size Photo

Some of the group at Dredge #4, these dredges actually floating, digging the gravel out of the way in front of them, processing it, and spitting it out the back, creating piles of tailings. They […]

Believe it or not this…. is the famous Bonanza Creek, where gold was first discovered. It just felt pretty small to me especially since it’s so famous. But then the next picture shows how they […]

Some of the cast from Diamond Tooth Girties. We had a great time the previous evening and actually stayed for 2 shows and a little Black Jack. It’s the latest we’ve stay up the whole […]

Dawson City had a small but colourful parade through the town. Mounties of course leading the way. Show Full Size Photo

After a lot of phone calls, discussions with the local contacts in Fairbanks, (including the president of AOPA Alaska), it was decided that most of us would not try and fly VFR into Northway for […]