The Yukon canoe and Kayak Club holds an event every year called the Whitewater Rodeo.
Paddlers take to the waves created right outside the Whitehorse hydroelectric dam, as fans watch from Centennial Bridge.
It’s an entertainign evening watching the paddlers do flips, rolls and some jousting, like bumper cars trying to playfully knock each other out of an eddy.
The North American Orienteering Championships were held in Yukon this year. It’s a sport where people use maps to find their way to different waypoints as well as a compass.
A person needs to be a good runner (pr walker, depending on the event) but also have a good sense of navigation.
When people find the checkpoints, they touch an little electronic device to a reader, so it confirms they have found it.
Events took place around Whitehorse and also in Carcross, where these photos were taken.
More than 500 people took part!
Travel on the Alaska Highway during summer and you’ll see bicycle tourists, travelling hundreds if not thousands of kilometres on epic journeys.
That bold, bright building with formline art is the George Johnston museum in Teslin Yukon.
Posted in Alaska Highway, Bicycling, Fall
I spotted these bears just outside the bridge in Teslin Yukon.
A mother bear was guiding her two cubs in crossing the road. The bears looked at the car from the bush before moving on.
Ah, summer in Yukon!
Some City of Whitehorse workers were maintaining a flower bed today beside Two Mile Hill.
When I approached to take a picture I could see many bumblebees going flower-to-flower.
Posted in Insects, Summer, Whitehorse
Life in Yukon 