Thanks to everyone who asks after us and shares an interest in the beautiful places we visit. Here's how we've been keeping busy in recent months.

Summer Recap
This year we were fortunate to explore two of the Yukon's most exciting wilderness areas. We spent five weeks in June and July in Ivvavik National Park in North Yukon. For the first half, we joined a team of Canadian Wildlife Service bird researchers. The coastal plain seemed frozen and asleep when we arrived, and we watched the gradual awakening of the tundra under round-the-clock daylight with an explosion of wildflowers, green shoots and newborn everything. We encountered all kinds of nesting birds - ruddy turnstones, red-necked phalaropes, red-throated loons, bluethroats - and the most thrilling migration of all, the Porcupine caribou herd.

The highlight of our summer was camping high on a ridge overlooking a broad valley dotted with thousands of cow caribou and their playful calves. For three days caribou spilled around us in a constant parade of animals. We came very close to crossing paths with Karsten and Leanne of Being Caribou, but our satellite phone failed us and we missed them by a mere 9 km. For more information about the Porcupine caribou and the proposed oil and gas development that threatens the herd's calving areas in Alaska, check out the website and resources at Taiga.net and Caribou Commons.

Next we joined a rafting expedition down the Firth River, also in Ivvavik National Park. Although the complete journey was shortened due to weather, the river and extraordinary landscape made a strong impression and we are keen to return.

In late July we canoed the Wind River as participants in the Three Rivers Journey, a unique Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society project to raise awareness of the need for conservation measures in the Yukon's Peel River watershed. Simultaneously, 37 artists, writers, photographers, journalists, elders, conservationists and community members traveled down the Snake, the Wind and the Bonnet Plume rivers. We will remember the amazing people we travelled with, and the haunting beauty of the Wernecke Mountains.

New Prints & Cards
In July we released three new posters, and introduced art cards and mini-posters to our Collection. Kluane National Park is the second in our Yukon Parks series, a companion to the popular Tombstone poster. The new posters also include a colourful panorama, Fireweed, and a unique image of the northern lights, Aurora Borealis. Eight art cards and three mini-posters round out our expanding Collection.

Winning Photos
This summer we were pleased to learn that two of Fritz's images were selected for top honours in the Banff Mountain Photography Competition. The Tombstone panorama earned the competition's Grand Prize, while his image of mountain goats and glaciers in Kluane National Park won the Mountain Landscape category. For more about the Banff Centre for Mountain Culture and their film and book festivals, click here.

Meanwhile, Fritz's swirling aurora image earned a 'highly honoured' distinction in the Landscape category in the Nature's Best International Photography Awards in the U.S. For more about the Nature's Best Foundation and their contest, click here.

Looking Ahead
Through fall and winter, Fritz is continuing to photograph the Yukon while Teresa will be writing and managing the office. We're around a lot more in winter, so please drop us an email to say hello. We'd love to hear from you.