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Blog: Secret tales from the Arctic trails
Date: February 23rd 2011

My first views of Whitehorse were glimpses I stole out the airplane window--I was in an aisle seat. We flew into Whitehorse on a winter's afternoon, when the late afternoon sun was bathing the snow-covered mountains in that winter light that is both warm and cold at the same time. When I think of the Yukon in the winter, I think of Robert Service and "The Creation of Sam McGee:"

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Tot: 1.156s; Tpl: 0.005s; cc: 11; qc: 29; dbt: 0.0221s; 1; s:apollo w:www (50.28.60.10); sld: 1; ; mem: 6.4mb