From Yukon to Alaska!
First, let me take this update to wish a good 1st August (Swiss National Day) to my Swiss readers. 😉 After three days in Inuvick trying to find a small boat that would take me bird watching in the Mackenzie River delta, I was frustrated: not even a “local” wantedRead More…
Dempster (2) : Yukon & Northwest Territories
1. VivaLaVida hit the Demster toward North again, still further north…    2. Chapmann Lake    3. While Tumbstone Mountains are granite, the rest of the road passes through limestone hills.    4. Entry in Eagle Plains, an immense plateau of boreal forest andRead More…
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… Â Â 1. VivaLaVida on the trail. Â Â Â 2. They are so many small lakes everywhere… Â Â Â 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…
D5 Creation