D and I went on a fantastic hike this weekend.  We went up to Mt. Lorne, just south of Whitehorse.

We hiked up to the ridge and camped next to a snow pack (our water source).  I'm a prairie girl, so topography is a new thing for me.  I've been working on it, and walking up the ramp at the mine has helped a lot.  But oh man, did it ever hurt!  Like ( Read more... )

You know you're a prairie girl in a mountain region when you park on a slight incline and realize you have no idea how to keep your car from rolling down-hill.  After you remember the parking brake, you pray that it still works because the only use for a parking brake in the prairies is for playing in gravel parking lots ( Read more... )

That was a pretty good weekend, despite all sorts of plan changing.

D and I were supposed to go to his best friend's place to camp overnight before the 4 of us (best friend and his wife) floated down the Yukon River from his place back into Whitehorse, fishing, sight-seeing, and camping along the way.

Then D's friend and his wife waffled on and ( Read more... )

Cripes is it ever hot out. Yes, it get's hot in the Yukon. Keep in mind, we have much much longer days than you in the summer (although we're losing 7 minutes of daylight a day), and it just sort of circles around most of the sky.  Really disorienting to see the sun in the northern sky.

But I digress (as usual); it's bloody hot.  I decided to come ( Read more... )

Ah man, I had a great day yesterday.

Rode into city centre to do some running around, and stopped at a little 50's diner for lunch. Mmm poutine (with real cheese curds too) and chocolate milkshake.  So good, and so damn filling, I could only eat half of the poutine.  I'm definitely going back there, and probably dragging someone in with me to share ( Read more... )

Going on an in-town adventure!  Local museums and coffeeshops, here I come!

Let's just hope I don't ride off the curb again.  Heh.

So, I'm thinking of starting up another blog.  Yes I know, another blog Heather? You barely update this one and haven't touched your sewing blog since May.  But I sort of want to do something Yukon and geology based, one that I don't mind a lot of people visiting and poking through. I don't mind the few people here that reads this journal, but this ( Read more... )

I am in a ridiculous amount of pain.

My shoulder, omg, I can't even pretend it's okay because it's already brought me to tears this morning.  Poor M didn't know what to do with me, just rubbed my back and stayed quiet.  I'm now on advils and will be for the rest of the day, and he adviced I get some A535 to rub on it.

I must've slept on it wrong, or ( Read more... )

Aww, my dinner date went really well.  :)  Okay, so dinner was an hour and a half late because I really suck at figuring out cooking times and time management, and also I was dumb and started WAAAY early because I sort of set my watch to Manitoba time. Don't ask me how I wound up late anyways, I totally lost track of time.  I don't even know.

Dinner ( Read more... )

I finally got a local number, so now I'm not paying through the nose for every call and text I make.  Unfortunately, I can't actually use my old phone, which pisses me off to no end.  I wound up buying a crappy bottom of the barrel pay-as-you-go-phone.  Which utterly utterly sucks, because my first cell phone (aka, the one that Yukon has rejected) ( Read more... )