Best Chilkoot Trail Podcasts (2025)

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#035 - Growing up in Yukon's Fort Selkirk, with Ione Christensen 1:31:28

2M ago1:31:28

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Growing up in the remote settlement of Yukon's Fort Selkirk during the 1930's and 40's, Ione Christenson's life has been significantly influenced and enriched from the multitude of experiences she embraced since her arrival there as a three year old child. As a young girl running her own dog team on a trap line west of her small village home, she q…

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#034 - I worked on the last Klondike YCGC Gold Dredge until it sank in 1966 - "Bino Ficiur 1:08:49

4M ago1:08:49

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"Bino" and Lynda Ficiur struck out from Lethbridge Alberta in the 1960's as young newlyweds to live the Klondike gold mining life of hard work and adventure in the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation's "Bear Creek" mining camp, located just outside of Dawson City. Lynda raised their family in camp, while Bino worked tirelessly in the goldfields. He…

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#033 - Climbing Mount Steele, with Angie Sabo 22:36

4M ago22:36

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In order to live life to the fullest here in the Yukon, you have to get outside of your comfort zone and experience this place and all of its beauty, danger, and grandiose magnitude up close and personal while embracing both the journey and the destination. As they say, " if you're not living on the edge, then you're taking up too much space". The …

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#032 - Tales from the Yukon Tour Bus, with Petra Hankinson 1:42:48

5M ago1:42:48

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The need for an efficient mode of mass transit in the Yukon was answered by the all mighty tour bus, bringing not only people, but valuable supplies up the 1387 miles of Alaska Highway starting from Mile Zero in Dawson Creek BC to Delta Junction Alaska. This once infrequently driven highway, is considered by many as a bucket list adventure, and the…

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#031 -"The Last Trapper" movie - Based on the real life adventures of Norm Winther 56:52

9M ago56:52

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Living in the wilds of Canada's Yukon Territory, Norm Winther has carved his life out of some of the most rugged and demanding parts of the territory, while living each and every day as an authentic trapper. With this diverse lifestyle comes the development of skills that are ever changing and as vast as the landscape that surrounds him. The urgenc…

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#030 - Jim Robb - Preserving the Yukon with his "Colourful Five Percent" artwork 40:59

1+ y ago40:59

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Artist Jim Robb has been a staple of the Yukon's art scene since the mid 1950's and is best know for his "Colourful Five Percent" books which are available in local Yukon bookstores and galleries. His works capture the quality and uniqueness of the many varied and colourful character and places that many would argue, have made the Yukon a little mo…

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#029 - Frank Turner - From Humble Beginnings to Yukon Quest Guinness World Record Holder 1:44:10

2y ago1:44:10

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At the top of the world in the Yukon and Alaska wilderness of northwestern North America, the Yukon Quest 1,000 Mile International Sled Dog Race, an epic winter sports event takes place every year on the first Saturday of February. One might ask, how many tries does it take to win the Yukon Quest Dog Sled Race? Much of the answer lies in your own p…

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#028 - Gaby Sgaga - Keeping the Yukon Quest Tradition Alive in Dawson City 13:52

2+ y ago13:52

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The Yukon Quest Dog Sled Race of 2023 is currently underway and heading north from Whitehorse to Dawson City, Yukon. Under the watchful eyes of a bevy of volunteers, race officials, and dog handlers, this 450 mile race traverses some of the most picturesque and harsh environments in Northern Canada. Hearty groups of eager dogs, mushers, handlers, a…

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#027 - "Nun cho ga" - "Big Animal Baby" Mammoth Discovered in Klondike Gold Fields 58:23

2+ y ago58:23

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June 21st remains a significant day for a great many people in Canada as the long daylight of the Summer Solstice transits into its next seasonal phase. A sense of time, mortality, humility and gratitude, often accompanies this pivotal day, especially for the people living in Canada's North. June 21st also marks National Indigenous Peoples Day sinc…

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#026 - The Life and Times of Hank Karr - Yukon's True North Balladeer 48:14

2+ y ago48:14

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Like so many others who came up to the Yukon for just two weeks, Hank Karr quickly realized that Whitehorse Yukon would be the place he'd grow his roots down deep, and "stay a while". That decision came quickly, when he first travelled from Ketichcan Alaska to Whitehorse Yukon in the mid 1960's to play his guitar and sing on the stage at the local …

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#025 - Hollywood in the Klondike - by author Michael Gates 1:45:24

2+ y ago1:45:24

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The world was abuzz with the discovery of gold in the Klondike on August 16th 1896. Hordes of prospectors, entrepreneurs, adventure seekers and a wide variety of "entertainers" rallied for their stake in what was to be one of the last great gold rushes of the century. For those entertainers who were unable to make this great adventure to Dawson Cit…

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#024 - Skymaster Down - Flight #2469 disappears over the Yukon without a trace 35:35

3+ y ago35:35

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JANUARY, 1950: SKYMASTER FLIGHT #2469 DISAPPEARS OVER THE YUKON. IT’S NEVER BEEN FOUND. VIEWERS JOIN THE SEARCH WHEN SKYMASTER DOWN PREMIERES ON documentary CHANNEL SUNDAY JANUARY 16, 9 p. m. ET/PT Tune in to CBC February 25th at 8:00pm ET 2024 to watch Documentary filmmaker Andrew Gregg has made many films in Canada’s North often examining some of…

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#023 – “A Yukon Game Warden’s Stories” by George Balmer 1:20:29

4y ago1:20:29

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#023 – “A Yukon Game Warden’s Stories” by George Balmer Retired Yukon Game Warden, George Balmer, humorously recounts more than 40 years of incredible outdoor adventures during his patrols to some of the territories most stunningly beautiful places. Reflecting upon his chance meetings with wonderfully unique people along the way and the occasional …

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#022 – How do you cross country ski your way from the wilds of the Yukon, to the PyeongChang Olympics? 52:23

4y ago52:23

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#022 – How do you cross country ski your way from the wilds of the Yukon to the PyeongChang Olympics? Olympic Competitor Dahria Beatty, reflects upon her passion for cross country skiing, and the winding journey her professional career has taken her on. To listen to the full M.A.Y.L. podcast show series, please click on MyAmazingYukonLife.com where…

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#021- Balto & Togo - A musical history lesson from the 1925 Diphtheria anti-toxin to the Covid 19 vaccine 29:06

4y ago29:06

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#021 Balto & Togo - a musical history lesson from the 1925 Diphtheria anti-toxin to the Covid 19 vaccine In late 1925, Diphtheria broke out in the remote town of Nome Alaska, and so began "The Great Race of Mercy". 20 dog mushers and 200 dogs swiftly mobilized their teams to bring the much needed anti-toxin to the ailing group of 1430 townspeople s…

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#020 - Memoirs of a 10 year old Donna Clayson. Moving from Dawson Creek to Haines Junction in the mid 60s 45:02

4+ y ago45:02

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#020 - Memoirs of a 10 year old Donna Clayson. Moving from Dawson Creek to Haines Junction in the mid 60s Travel in the Yukon in the 21st century is literally a breeze compared to the earlier modes of transportation. Waterways, wagon roads, horse trails, and traditional foot roots all paved the way towards the comforts we enjoy today, and eventuall…

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#019 - Garbage Truck Santa - Come ride along with Yukon's one and only Wayne Henderson 1:19:05

4+ y ago1:19:05

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#019 - Garbage Truck Santa - Come ride along with Yukon's one and only Wayne Henderson Wayne Henderson spends the weeks leading up to Christmas making his list, checking it twice, planning his route, and scraping the ice, as he prepares his electric light garbage truck and Santa suit for what has become a Yukon winter tradition for nearly three dec…

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#018 – Exploring the North with ExploreNorth.com founder, Murray Lundberg 47:12

4+ y ago47:12

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#018 – Exploring the North with ExploreNorth.com founder, Murray Lundberg In today’s interview with Murray Lundberg, we discuss the adventures, challenges, and changes in researching and presenting the fascinating history of the Yukon. We discuss how social media, WYSIWYG website development, PDF books and the ever changing Internet has been both a…

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#017 – Piecing Together Yukon’s Rocky History – An Interview with Head Yukon Surficial Geologist, Jeff Bond. 1:27:21

4+ y ago1:27:21

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#017 – Piecing Together Yukon’s Rocky History – An Interview with Head Yukon Surficial Geologist, Jeff Bond. In today’s interview with Jeff Bond, we discuss the adventures, challenges, and changes in the field of Surficial Geology and how recent scientific analysis techniques have aided Yukon’s mineral exploration industry. Jeff’s lifelong learning…

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#016 – The passing of guitar legend Eddie Van Halen. 17:09

4+ y ago17:09

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#016 – The passing of guitar legend Eddie Van Halen. In today’s podcast, we jump back to the year 1984 with the rock band Van Halen. This was the time in musical history when guitar wielding, string bending, finger tapping virtuoso axeman Eddie Van Halen commanded the stage and rocked arenas around the world, not only with his incredible technique …

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#015 – Restoring the Fokker Super Universal CF-AAM aircraft to her halcyon days. 46:51

4+ y ago46:51

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#015 – Restoring the Fokker Super Universal CF-AAM aircraft to her halcyon days. In today’s podcast with Donna Clayson, we learn about a research project she complied discussing the dedicated team of pilots, engineers, historians and many others behind the scenes who worked diligently for 18 years restoring one of the first aircraft to serve in the…

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#014 – Bhangra Dancing in the Yukon with Gurdeep Pandher 34:25

4+ y ago34:25

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#014 – Bhangra Dancing in the Yukon with Gurdeep Pandher Gurdeep Pandher arrived in Whitehorse with a burning desire to share the joyous and unique style of Bhangra dance to Yukoners in every town and remote community throughout the territory. When his first 2016 Canada Day Bhangra dance video went viral overnight on the Internet, he quickly realiz…

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#013 – Keeping Yukon's History Alive and Well. An interview with historian Donna Clayson. 56:16

4+ y ago56:16

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#013 – Keeping Yukon's History Alive and Well. An interview with historian Donna Clayson. In today’s podcast interview, we only began to scratch the surface of Donna Clayson’s lifelong passion and enthusiasm towards preserving the Yukon’s rich history. As an accomplished writer of short stories, news articles, research papers, and often times histo…

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#012 - Paragliding and Paramotoring Adventures in the Yukon – An interview with extreme outdoor adventurist Boštjan Škrlj 1:09:10

4+ y ago1:09:10

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#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 rel…

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#011 – A Soaring Desire to start the Yukon Glider Association - an Interview with pilot Uli Klausing. 52:34

5y ago52:34

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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 b…

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#010 – Canada’s Northernmost Life Master Bridge Player. An interview with Chic Callas 1:01:44

5y ago1:01:44

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#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. Facto…

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#009 – Yukon Website Designer and Technology Guru, “Doctor” Roger Gillies. 1:10:59

5y ago1:10:59

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#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 perfec…

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#008 – Retiring Band Teacher Knows How To “Conduct Himself” After The Yukon – Interview with “Doctor” Keith Todd 57:05

5y ago57:05

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#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 thr…

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#007 - Flying with Floats - Alpine Aviation with Gerd Mannsperger 55:52

5y ago55:52

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#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 …

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#006 - The Ibex Ridge Hike with Jeff Bond 18:49

5y ago18:49

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#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.…

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#005 - Hauling Heavy on the Demspter Highway & Ice Roads with Dan Throssell 1:17:28

5y ago1:17:28

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#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 …

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#004 - Placer Gold Mining with the Mayo Prospector, Lawrence Dublenko 1:10:53

5y ago1:10:53

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#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 o…

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#003 - Paddling the Tatshenshini River right into the Yukon Sports Hall of Fame with Bob Daffe 27:37

5y ago27:37

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#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 Can…

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#002 - The Fly Fishing Musician - Don Bishop 38:59

5y ago38:59

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#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 t…

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#001 - Welcome to My Amazing Yukon Life! 14:00

5y ago14:00

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#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 t…

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My Amazing Yukon Life

Daniel Halen

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#035 - Growing up in Yukon's Fort Selkirk, with Ione Christensen 1:31:28

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#034 - I worked on the last Klondike YCGC Gold Dredge until it sank in 1966 - "Bino Ficiur 1:08:49

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#033 - Climbing Mount Steele, with Angie Sabo 22:36

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#032 - Tales from the Yukon Tour Bus, with Petra Hankinson 1:42:48

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#031 -"The Last Trapper" movie - Based on the real life adventures of Norm Winther 56:52

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#030 - Jim Robb - Preserving the Yukon with his "Colourful Five Percent" artwork 40:59

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#029 - Frank Turner - From Humble Beginnings to Yukon Quest Guinness World Record Holder 1:44:10

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#028 - Gaby Sgaga - Keeping the Yukon Quest Tradition Alive in Dawson City 13:52

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#027 - "Nun cho ga" - "Big Animal Baby" Mammoth Discovered in Klondike Gold Fields 58:23

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#026 - The Life and Times of Hank Karr - Yukon's True North Balladeer 48:14

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#025 - Hollywood in the Klondike - by author Michael Gates 1:45:24

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#024 - Skymaster Down - Flight #2469 disappears over the Yukon without a trace 35:35

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#023 – “A Yukon Game Warden’s Stories” by George Balmer 1:20:29

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#022 – How do you cross country ski your way from the wilds of the Yukon, to the PyeongChang Olympics? 52:23

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#021- Balto & Togo - A musical history lesson from the 1925 Diphtheria anti-toxin to the Covid 19 vaccine 29:06

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#020 - Memoirs of a 10 year old Donna Clayson. Moving from Dawson Creek to Haines Junction in the mid 60s 45:02

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#019 - Garbage Truck Santa - Come ride along with Yukon's one and only Wayne Henderson 1:19:05

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#018 – Exploring the North with ExploreNorth.com founder, Murray Lundberg 47:12

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#017 – Piecing Together Yukon’s Rocky History – An Interview with Head Yukon Surficial Geologist, Jeff Bond. 1:27:21

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#016 – The passing of guitar legend Eddie Van Halen. 17:09

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#015 – Restoring the Fokker Super Universal CF-AAM aircraft to her halcyon days. 46:51

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#014 – Bhangra Dancing in the Yukon with Gurdeep Pandher 34:25

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#013 – Keeping Yukon's History Alive and Well. An interview with historian Donna Clayson. 56:16

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#012 - Paragliding and Paramotoring Adventures in the Yukon – An interview with extreme outdoor adventurist Boštjan Škrlj 1:09:10

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#011 – A Soaring Desire to start the Yukon Glider Association - an Interview with pilot Uli Klausing. 52:34

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#010 – Canada’s Northernmost Life Master Bridge Player. An interview with Chic Callas 1:01:44

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#009 – Yukon Website Designer and Technology Guru, “Doctor” Roger Gillies. 1:10:59

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#008 – Retiring Band Teacher Knows How To “Conduct Himself” After The Yukon – Interview with “Doctor” Keith Todd 57:05

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#007 - Flying with Floats - Alpine Aviation with Gerd Mannsperger 55:52

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#006 - The Ibex Ridge Hike with Jeff Bond 18:49

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#005 - Hauling Heavy on the Demspter Highway & Ice Roads with Dan Throssell 1:17:28

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#004 - Placer Gold Mining with the Mayo Prospector, Lawrence Dublenko 1:10:53

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#003 - Paddling the Tatshenshini River right into the Yukon Sports Hall of Fame with Bob Daffe 27:37

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#002 - The Fly Fishing Musician - Don Bishop 38:59

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#001 - Welcome to My Amazing Yukon Life! 14:00