My wife is in White Horse, Canada, this week with some of her family, because her late grandfather was named the “Pioneer of the Year” by the Yukon Territory Transportation Museum. The big ceremony is tomorrow. Her grandfather was a bush pilot famous for providing the first airmail delivery to the Yukon Territory and for participating in an air rescue of passengers who had been in a plane crash in Whitehorse (which was apparently covered in the widely read issue #9 of the Yukoner Magazine). He also provided flight support to the National Geographic Society during the first mapping expedition of the St. Elias mountains. He flew a Fokker Super Universal CF-AAM.
While driving from Whitehorse to Skagway to take a train ride today, they came off this friendly bear who was crossing the road to eat some dandelion greens. Keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times, indeed.
