Flightseeing Glacier Bay, Alaska.
02.12.2025 10:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@explorenorth.bsky.social
Discovered the Yukon in 1985, never leaving. Historian, traveller, photographer, writer, wilderness hiker, naturist, dog lover, antifa - on some particularly fine days, all of those things. Photos are mine unless otherwise credited.
Flightseeing Glacier Bay, Alaska.
02.12.2025 10:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A stormy morning in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
02.12.2025 10:13 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Military ship commanders murdering foreign nationals at sea without due process: "I was just following orders - and yes, rejecting my oath to protect to Constitution. What are you going to do about it?"
02.12.2025 00:40 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The world will celebrate the deaths of these 3 evil people. Very soon, I hope. Trump certainly looks like the celebration may start today.
01.12.2025 14:44 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Entering the lock on the Moselle River at Enkirch, Germany.
01.12.2025 11:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hiking up the Three Guardsmen (Haines Highway, in the furthest northwest corner of BC) on an old mining road with Tucker and Bella 9 years ago.
01.12.2025 10:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A screaming south wind last night has brought in some very warm air from the coast! The average high for today is -8.9C and the record low of -39.4C was set in 1975. #Yukon
01.12.2025 10:27 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0White Horse, Yukon Territory, 1899. Within a year the community had been moved to the other side of the Yukon River, and it would be almost 60 years before a community developed on this side, with a bridge to access it.
30.11.2025 22:43 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Was this the world's first podcast? Connecting 10,000 Ford dealers in 41 cities for an hour in 1934! Using 15,000 miles of wire and 250 phone company employees.
30.11.2025 21:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You missed half it it - "my mother and father were wrong - I am NOT a total failure"...
30.11.2025 21:17 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Do you have any plans for it yet? We rented a campervan and wandered the North Island for a month. 10/10
30.11.2025 20:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Hiking in places like Mine Mountain just north of Skagway, Alaska, requires well-developed off-trail navigation skills.
30.11.2025 18:28 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New Zealand has some bloody awesome bus tours. From 90 Mile Beach on the west coast of the North Island, where the speed limit is 100m km/h, we went up Te Paki Stream to do some dune-surfing β€οΈ
30.11.2025 18:21 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0There you go, Neil. You could, though, just get your mum to show you how to Unfollow him, to lower your stress level.
30.11.2025 13:03 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Canada and Mexico aren't trying to determine what international law is - only the folks in that crack house between us are.
29.11.2025 23:34 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Evening at DinkelsbΓΌhl, Germany - the Goldener Hirsch Hotel. #Kodachrome, 1991.
29.11.2025 22:13 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Second-growth rainforest, Chilliwack, BC. #Kodachrome, 8-second exposure, 1989.
29.11.2025 22:07 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0By the time they're 30, every person should be put in a position where they have to navigate an airport while in a wheelchair, believing that was their life from then now. It would soon be a better world. Empathy can be a learned behaviour - or re-learned. Yes, I did, 5 years ago.
29.11.2025 20:43 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm pleased to see one of my favourite historians describing another little-known (or long-forgotten) bit of Vancouver-area history, including acknowledgement and perhaps even celebration of the fact that nudity was common in counter-culture communities of that period. evelazarus.com/a-short-hist...
29.11.2025 17:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A muddy day exploring along the Mackenzie Highway in the Northwest Territories. What an amazing trip this was. After 9 days on the road, during which I rode 5,127 kilometers, I had 1,166 photos in my file after editing.
29.11.2025 01:26 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A calm August morning on Alberta's North Saskatchewan River.
29.11.2025 01:15 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0A little blog post (13 photos and an 80-second video) about yesterday's drive in search of sun in the Yukon - explorenorthblog.com/in-search-of...
28.11.2025 23:38 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you think the New City City mayor election was wild this year, check out the 1933 one! I just came across this in the "Radio News Briefs" section of The Whitehorse Star.
28.11.2025 16:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The fascists now in charge aren't big on logic. Or facts. Or empathy. Or truth in general. Or science...
28.11.2025 15:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Getting a car from Dawson to Whitehorse, Yukon, in 1933 sometimes required the car to be disassembled and carried across the Yukon River piece by piece by canoe! Ah yes, the good old days! π
28.11.2025 11:24 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you, Patti. It was a wonderful spot to spend some time yesterday.
28.11.2025 08:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Here's a minute of icy zen from my drive today... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tcz...
28.11.2025 04:01 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Thanks, Andy. I made the same post with a slightly different photo in my naturist account π
27.11.2025 10:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It was grooming day today β€οΈ
26.11.2025 23:42 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Cool! Warning me not to try to pass!
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