It’s the great, big, broad land ’way up yonder,
It’s the forests where silence has lease;
It’s the beauty that thrills me with wonder,
It’s the stillness that fills me with peace.
The Spell of the Yukon, 1907, Robert Service
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So there I was, gobsmacked looking at the last 10,000 or so years stretching as far as the eye could see. Few places on the planet have been so unchanged over the course of time. Canada’s Yukon Territory was etched in rugged relief against a peaceful sky. The subarctic landscape was both majestic and humble. There was mystery, yet serenity. Glacier-fed water as cold as it was clear cut across the foreign landscape more moonscape than planet earth. The isolation was tangible. Then again, Canada’s YT, larger and considerably colder than the state of California, is almost completely unsettled. Four-legged species far outnumber humans. Most of the Yukon’s 37,000 inhabitants (one thousandth the population of California) live in Whitehorse, the territory capital. Archeologists believe that man may have followed those four-legged creatures (woolly mammoth, saiga antelope and caballid horses) across the Bering Land Bridge 13,000 years ago, before vast continental ice sheets began melting and rising sea levels swallowed up the land mass between Siberia and Alaska 10,000 years ago. I believe there is such a thing as love at first sight. It’s the great, big, broad land ’way up yonder, It’s the forests where silence has lease; It’s the beauty that thrills me with wonder, It’s the stillness that fills me with peace. The Spell of the Yukon, 1907, Robert Service -----------------------------
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Joan
10/10/2016 01:34:40 pm
Beautiful photographs and commentary. Nothing less than I expect from you.
Sherry
10/10/2016 05:57:11 pm
You are too kind. As beautiful as the scenery was, beautiful shots came easy.
Shay
10/12/2016 08:36:23 am
We had a perfect summer day for visiting the area. Comments are closed.
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