Windchill

With the windchill, it was nearly -20 this morning and a thick, hard frost covered the windshield. It reminded me of Haines Junction, where I lived for a year or so with Jenny before we moved to Whitehorse this past summer. Haines Junction is a sleepy little town of 800 people in southwest Yukon, an hour and a half drive straight west of Whitehorse on the Alaska highway. It is the gateway to Kluane National Park, home of the St. Elias Mountains and Canada's tallest mountain, Mt. Logan. It is also home to the largest non-polar icefield in the world. Basically, other than the north and south poles, the largest accumulation of glacial ice (and thus, freshwater) on the planet is contained in these mountains.

Mount Logan Trivia:
- elevation of 5959 m
- 2nd highest peak in North American behind Mount McKinley
- volumetrically is the largest mountain in the world
- named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC)