so.... would you give it all up to move to the yukon?

[carverk]

Lived a stones throw across the border from Stewart, BC in Hyder Alaska for a coupla years in the 70s because it was a lot cheaper than living on the Canadian side when I worked at the Granduc copper mine just north of Stewart, BC.
My dual CDN/USA citizenship worked well for me back then.
The money was pretty decent at the mine.
Most of the mono-national US folks living in Hyder at the time hadn't worked in years.
Hyder was the drinkingist town I ever lived in.

Sorry to digress.

haahaa They just paved the main road no more pet goats and chickens on the road
When we were teenagers we use to go robbing fish creek all the time and the grizzlys would rod are fish
Had sum good times shooting salmon with a bow and arrow and have grizzly bears fishing right beside us no more then 20 feet away
You don't know grizzly bears till you spent time up in Stewart and Hyder

 

[Gunoholic]

haahaa They just paved the main road no more pet goats and chickens on the road
When we were teenagers we use to go robbing fish creek all the time and the grizzlys would rod are fish
Had sum good times shooting salmon with a bow and arrow and have grizzly bears fishing right beside us no more then 20 feet away
You don't know grizzly bears till you spent time up in Stewart and Hyder

I had a deal with the Grizzlies and the even bigger coastal brown bears.
They left me alone and I left them alone.
That relationship has kept me alive and well for almost 70 years, 10 of which were lived in various parts of Alaska.

I always packed iron on the American side when I was in the bush - a stainless model 629.
The border was not manned at that time in the 70s and you could cross without any checking or vetting whatsoever.

I was always careful to leave and store my handgun on the American side even back then.
Now that the mounties are wearing their shorts 3 sizes too small after c17/c68 I would be even less inclinded to wander into Canada with a handgun.

I hope the rumor is true that they plan to re-open the old Granduc mine up at Tide Lake.
Met lots of nice people both in Stewart and when they came over to the SeAlaska and Last Chance Saloon to drink.

Was "hyderized" back in the 70s.
Anybody who's spent any time in Hyder knows what that is.

Again, sorry to digress from the topic of the thread.

 

[CV32]

the ocean is not that far when you are in Whitehorse ... look up Skagway on a map.

Yeah, I'm aware, but I can see the ocean from right here.

 

[Ardent]

It's a good way to be, I'm lying on the couch and if I sit up and weave my gaze through the notches in the houses and trees, can see the Pacific 250 feet below, maybe after coffee I'll sit up.

 

[45ACPKING]

I had a deal with the Grizzlies and the even bigger coastal brown bears.
They left me alone and I left them alone.
That relationship has kept me alive and well for almost 70 years, 10 of which were lived in various parts of Alaska.

I always packed iron on the American side when I was in the bush - a stainless model 629.
The border was not manned at that time in the 70s and you could cross without any checking or vetting whatsoever.

I was always careful to leave and store my handgun on the American side even back then.
Now that the mounties are wearing their shorts 3 sizes too small after c17/c68 I would be even less inclinded to wander into Canada with a handgun.

I hope the rumor is true that they plan to re-open the old Granduc mine up at Tide Lake.
Met lots of nice people both in Stewart and when they came over to the SeAlaska and Last Chance Saloon to drink.

Was "hyderized" back in the 70s.
Anybody who's spent any time in Hyder knows what that is.

Again, sorry to digress from the topic of the thread.

no worries, I am actually enjoying the results of this thread and the guys sharing their experiences
I was born in 69 ...... 40 years too late if you ask me (or was it 140..... LOL ) and while I've experienced some very cool and unique adventures over the years, I've always craved a more remote and frontier-like lifestyle. I really enjoy hearing the stories of guys who have spent time in the north and have longed for those experiences myself.
looks like my services will be required here in BC for a big job we just got our bid accepted for so perhaps next summer we will seriously take a hard look at making the move north.
Ketchikan would have been my first choice but the process to get there is not going so well..... damn immigration laws.
I will see the Yukon within a year from now and hopefully it's a one way trip