VivaLaVida!

A journey to meet the planet and its inhabitants...

North Yukon : Dempster Highway

VivaLaVida then took the way of the Dempster Highway. For less than hundred miles first since I stopped to hike in the gorgeous Tumbstone Provincial Park. A place where granite peaks come out of the tundra, the only place where there is granite in Northern Yukon.     1. AscentRead More…

Central Yukon

Still in central Yukon, I visited Keno City, a “City” of 21 inhabitants actuelly ! I must say that the price of silver and zinc are really down, so the mines are actually shut down.   1. The hotel and one of the two bars of this quite surprising “likeRead More…

South West Yukon (2)

Continuing the discover of backcountry roads the next day, I arrived into mining areas, some of which are still active today. Guys continue to look for gold…     1. VivaLaVida on the trail.       2. They are so many small lakes everywhere…       3. OverRead More…

South West Yukon

As anounced, VivaLaVida arrived in Yukon, the most North-West province of Canada. This territory extends till the Arctic Ocean. The South is hilly and covered with a uniform boreal forest, the North is only tundra till out of sight.     1. The famous “Sign Post Forest in Watson Lake.Read More…

Jasper National Park & South Alaska Highway

Continuing my journey in Canadian Rockies.     1. Going up the Maligne Valley in Jasper National Park.       2. Allong the road, meeting with a small group of big horn sheeps and calfs.       3. Likely only a few weeks old…       4.Read More…

Banff NP & Icefield Parkway

These Canadian Rockies are gorgeous. I continued to explore those looping south of Banff, a grouse mountain station 1:30 away from Calgary. I’m then past in Alberta.     1. Castle Mountain, only some miles North of Banff.       2. A male sheep that I managed to getRead More…

From Montana to Canada

From Butte I continue my way North visiting Glacier National Park. More than some small glacier that still subsist – but for how long? – it’s a land of mountains and lakes.     1. Allong the road, a funny oldtimer hitch!       2. Kintla Lake, retired andRead More…

Montana: Bannack & Butte

The Lemhi Pass is on the Continental Divide. There is tla “Farest Fountain”, the source that is furthest from the delta of the Missouri / Mississippi.     1. Farest Fountain Creek.       2. Typical portal       3. Coyote Flat.       4. Arrival atRead More…

Ghost Towns of Idaho

As announced, here are some images of three ghost towns dating from the gold rush. Most of them have been inhabited for a few years before new gold discoveries decide to relocate their inhabitants.     1. First visit at Custer, in Yankee Valley       2. Traditional logRead More…

Idaho (3)

Still discovering Idaho     1. Sunset from Sunset Peak, above Boise.       2. Trying to reach Deadwood Reservoir, I was one more time stopped by the snow.       3. The altitude marshes are waterlogged…       4. … and rivers overflow.      Read More…