2022

Hope all is well, and you are getting ready for the festive season. Yes, it is that time of the year again, I find that as I get older these special occasions seem to come along a lot faster.

We got a flight out on the 10th of September back to the big city of Whitehorse. Its always funny to watch the expressions on the faces of the staff who have not been in the bush for a long period of time, smiles and regrets. And then there is Missy, but she doesn’t care where she is as long as there is some water close by, oh the life of a dog.

For us up here we had a pretty hot spell with thunderstorms causing some forest fires that could be seen from the lodge. With that came the smoke from fires in Alaska and the Yukon. Since then we have had some rain to help cool things down and the skies are clear blue again with unlimited visibility.

With everything that we have all been through this last couple of years it is nice seeing things getting back to normal especially with today's announcement about no more testing for international flights into the US.

Spring is well on its way here at home, but at the lodge in the Yukon, spring is slow coming this year with record snow falls in many parts of the Yukon and another cold winter.

For many of us in the north it has been an old fashion winter, maybe we just got soft with the last two winters being pretty easy. I know from watching the weather station at Snag Yukon, which is the closest place to the lodge, it was -60 one morning without the wind.