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Summer 2009

Inside

Editor's note
The best laid plans head north

Miscellanea
North of Ordinary trivia,
North of Ordinary on tour,
Your letters

Message from Joe Sparling,
President of Air North, Yukon´s Airline

Travel the Yukon
Three things to do in the Yukon this summer

Where are they now?
Catching up with Craig Mackie and Robert Oliphant

Extra! Extra!
Yukon newsmakers

Venture north
Interviews with the proprietors of Sports North, Hawkins
Street Health Centre and Klondike Rib & Salmon BBQ

Citysnap calendar

What's going on in the Yukon, Vancouver,
Edmonton, Alaska, Inuvik and Calgary.

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Features

Cover story: "Caching" in on adventure

By Jerome Stueart

Putting a new twist on the centuries-old pursuit of treasure hunting, GPS-equipped geocachers scour the Yukon in search of hidden delights.

"When I was a boy, at ChristmasI would create a treasure
hunt for my sister, Jenifer. I’d hide her present somewhere in
the house and leave a wrapped box under the Christmas tree with a note that read, “Where you sit down to dinner, there you’ll
find a clue / your present won’t be that far away from you!” And then she’d run to the dining room and look under her chair,
where she’d find another note. Sometimes it took eight or nine clues before she found her Christmas present.
“I used to love that,” Jenifer tells me over the phone, from her home in Texas. But can searching for a present really be better
than just finding it under the tree?. READ MORE IN THE SUMMER 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

All grown up in Atlin

By André Gagné

The Atlin Arts & Music Festival enters its seventh year on strong footing.

Nicole Edwards vividly remembers the atmosphere surrounding
the opening of the first Atlin Arts & Music Festival, in 2003.
“The festival hosts were calm and very welcoming, the sun was shining bright, the scenery was beautiful, and there was a sense around the town that something wonderful was just beginning,” says the singer-songwriter and guitarist, who played the first set at the inaugural festival. “I sat down, played my solo set—it felt great—and looking back I remember thinking, Atlin’s the little town that pulled it off.”. READ MORE IN THE SUMMER 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

An old hand at new frontiers

By Claire Festel

Alex Van Bibber, 93, has melted snow for the Kennedys, climbed with Sir Edmund Hilary, and been awarded the Order of Canada. A veteran trapper, outfitter, and guide, Van Bibber still takes time to share his experiences in the wild.

Alex Van Bibber stands in front of 15 would-be trappers enrolled in the Yukon trappers’ education course. He’s wearing a plaid shirt, a ball cap, and a stiff cardboard cone on his right arm. “Imagine this,” he begins. “You’re out on the trapline, checking traps. READ MORE IN THE SUMMER 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

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Travel Outside

Outside highlights

Four events to check out in Vancouver, Edmonton,
Fairbanks or Calgary.

Festival spectacular

By Wayne Potoroka

A roundup of the best music- and arts-gatherings in
the west.
Leaving the Yukon in the summer is a bit like departing a
dinner party just as the main course is served. (The long,
dark winter isn’t much of an appetizer, but it does generate
a ravenous appetite for summer.)
But for music aficionados with tastes from harpsichords to
hard rock, there are several festivals in the gateway cities that
make it easy to “push away from the table” and jet south for the
weekend. READ MORE IN THE SUMMER 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

R & R

The boreal chef: teaching an old trout new tricks

With a little help from mother, Miche Genest does
poached trout the hard way and the easy way.
My mother, who calls herself an "old trout" (as in, “Not
bad for an old trout,” when she triumphs over adversity
and bags a parking spot, say, right in front of the dry
cleaner’s), is a great cook in the classic French style. Her signature items on the kitchen counter when I was young were a bottle of Mommessin red table wine and a pound of butter.. READ MORE IN THE SUMMER 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

Of note: the revivalist

Brenda Barnes talks with singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Anne Louise Genest.
As I drove my truck north from Whitehorse along the Mayo Road in late February, I thought about an evening many years ago when I introduced Anne Louise Genest at the launch of her second CD, Big Dream, at the Yukon Arts Centre. Five years later, I was on my way to speak with Genest about the change in musical direction and focus that has given new life to her career. READ MORE IN THE SUMMER 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

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Learning to fly

Dennis Zimmerman tackles the essentials of good fishing gear. READ MORE IN THE SPRING 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

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