My Amazing Yukon Life

#012 - Paragliding and Paramotoring Adventures in the Yukon – An interview with extreme outdoor adventurist Boštjan Škrlj In today’s interview with Boštjan Škrlj, we get a bird’s eye view into the adventure sport of paragliding and paramotoring in the Yukon. Although the sport has been extremely popular throughout the world for many years, it’s relatively new to the territory and has drawn adventu...

In today’s interview with Uli Klausing, we discuss his formative years as an aspiring glider pilot in Northern Germany where he discovered his love of flying as a teenager around the Baltic Sea. The flying culture, comradery and support network of the clubs in this region have had a long-lasting effect on his flying career and has inspired him to begin his own Yukon Glider Association in the Yukon...

#010 – Canada’s Northernmost Life Master Bridge Player. An interview with Chic Callas  With years of passion and commitment towards mastering the game of Duplicate Bridge, Chic Callas has recently achieved “Life Master” status through the American Contract Bridge League. Not an easy task by any measure regardless of where you happen to reside. Factor in the remoteness of living in the Yukon Territ...

#009 – In today’s interview with Roger Gillies, we discuss his life-long learning philosophy of educating one’s self far beyond the confines of the four walls of the traditional classroom environment.  His curiosity with technology, and the chance opportunities that arrived at his doorstep via his teaching assignment in the Yukon, created the perfect combination for both his curious and creative p...

#008 –  In today’s interview with Dr. Keith Todd, we discuss the adventures, challenges, and changes in the field of music education over the course of his 33 year career in Yukon and B.C.  His lifelong commitment to music education, along with his willingness to share his passion for music with members of the communities he’s lived in, permeates throughout our discussion. He’s clearly woven himse...

  #007 - In today’s interview with Gerd Mannsperger ( Owner/Operator of Alpine Aviation ), we discuss the adventures, challenges, and changes in the float plane flying business over his past 23 years working in this essential service industry in the Yukon. Gerd's keen sense of balancing his work/life relationship permeates through our discussion, as he talks about the importance of growing a...

 #006 - The Ibex Ridge hike is a somewhat easy trailhead to access "if" you have some clear directions to the starting point. YTG Placer Gold Geologist Jeff Bond gives you not only the accurate directions to the starting point of this amazing hike, but some in depth background into the geological history that shaped the Ibex and Takhini River basin.  Classified as an "intermediate/a...

#005 - Professional highway trucker and heavy equipment owner/operator Dan Throssell, has us sitting passenger as we drive up the Yukon’s Dempster Highway at -60 in a blinding snowstorm. His stories of cautious travel fraught with mechanical ordeals and nearly zero human contact on this 700 plus miles of lonely highway will keep you on the edge of your seat.  In a land intersected by only a few gr...

#004 - In this episode, we learn how to search for that rare metal element that men have toiled over for millennia, and quickly realize all that glitters is often times more than just gold.  Lawrence Dublenko and his wife Connie eventually discover a placer gold bearing creek in the back country of the Mayo area, and more importantly, the treasure of camaraderie in the hearts and souls of the peop...

#003 - World renown white water paddling expert, Yukon Sport Hall of Fame Inductee, and founder of Tatshenshini Expediting, Bob Daffe, highlights some of the wild river adventures he’s had while living ( and playing ) for more than four decades in the Yukon. His passion for white water adventure has taken him to some of the most remote parts of Canada’s north as well as epic forays into Central an...

#002 - The Fly Fishing Musician Don Bishop, reflects upon his career as a full time world touring musician in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Band, and in later years, a pilot in the membership's Air Division stationed out of Whitehorse, Yukon.  As a gifted musician and avid outdoorsman, Don's journey led him to the Yukon in the late 1960's only to return back up to the Land of th...

#001 - Yukon history fans unite for the premier of M.A.Y.L  In this episode, I welcome you to join me on an audio journey through the My Amazing Yukon Life Podcast. I share fragments from my own personal stories of adventure and my fascination with the local history and uniqueness of the Yukon people. Followed up with a brief preview of what's yet to come in future shows. To listen to the ful...