Note: Some of you did not get my Episode on Bunmahon, Ireland…covered in sea foam mysteriouslyl
The video and pictures were just too large for your computers. No matter. Not a big deal. I will not
send videos again…
EPISODE 260 YUKON DIARY: ANCIENT DEAD FOREST STILL STANDING….WATCHING, WATCHING, WATCHING
alan skeoch
Feb. 2021
We were working our way up the side of a Yukon “Hill” which back east in Ontario we would call a mountain.
It was quite verdant until we reached the crest and looked down the other side. There before us was a
ghost forest. Hundreds of trees that had been killed in A forest fire long ago. Then decades of wind, rain, ice pellets,
snow had scoured the dead trees into wonderful shapes. Frightening really. Like entering a graveyard at the
end of time.
So I rescued two of the trees and carried them back to our Peso Silver camp much to the amusement
of the crew there. With the help of a buck saw and Bill Scott I reduced the size of the pieces and later
shipped them back to Toronto using White Pass trucking. My expense.
I still have those tree trunks. One has the shape of A duck with one wing partially extended.
The other seems like an abstract kind of thing that Henry Moore would do. The scouring sanded away
most of the charcoal residue from the burn. But not all. The result can be quite chilling. Just imagine
coming to the mountain crest and suddenly seeing hundreds of these eroded trees standing vertically
like a ghost army…watching …watching…watching.
alan skeoch
Feb. 2021
