A family run business

Meet a family that live a true Yukon lifestyle!

Our Story

Fabien and Raphaëlle are both from the Alps, France. They worked respectively as ski coach, hiking guide, and ski patroller.

In 2014, after 15 years of life in Vercors, in their chalet close to nature, hiking, skiing and sled dogging across the mountains, they decided to follow their dreams of Far North then came in Yukon.

They leave in a log cabin

At Fish Lake with their daughter Rose and their family sled dogs team. This two adventurers like to be close to nature and immerse in the wilderness, always with their canin best friends. Getting their water from the river, cutting their firewood, producing their electricity from a solar system is part of their way to fully live their love of nature.

After a few years in Yukon, Fabien and Raphaëlle decide to create a family run business, that combine their passions and complementary skills, moreover allows them to live even more in harmony with their environment.

In the fall of 2020

The call of the Yukon was born.

In December 2021

A new adventure starts with Rose‘s birth. She participated in her first winter camping at 4 month old! She really enjoys being outdoors and with the dogs. She also likes to meet new people also charm them with a smile!

Who we are

Raphaëlle

She loves the mountains since childhood and was guiding her first expeditions at 21 y.o. She discovered first the Far North during a trip with her parents to Lapland. Canadian by her mother who was born and raised in Quebec, she is naturally attracted by Canada. During 15 years, she is a hiking guide and cross country ski coach in the Alps. Before to land to Yukon, she is a ranger for the Vercors National Park. She gets seduced by the Yukon with its long winters, wide open spaces and mountains. She starts coaching ski in the local ski hills and teaches french at the Yukon Montessori School. Now, she takes care of her daughter Rose, at home so she can raise her close to nature. She is also the administrative manager of The call of the Yukon and she is guiding the ski tours. In addition, she volunteers and coach cross-country skiing for the Koyotes Kwanlin Dün ski club. You may meet her ski-joering around Fish Lake with her sled dogs, carrying Rose on her back!

Fabien

He loves being in nature and explore in the wilderness. Since he is a teenager, he engages in solo adventures. One of it brought him to Quebec after crossing the Atlantic ocean on a boat. Another took him hiking during two months to across the Alps. Thereafter he discovered the Far North by participating in a three-month sled dogging expedition through Siberia, China and Mongolia. While training a dog team for the Yukon Quest and Iditarod races, he discovered the Yukon. He ran and successfully completed several 500 km races in Yukon and Alaska. After that he starts working as a ski and bike patrol at the Mt Sima ski resort and become the Patrol leader.Today, he runs his dog team for fun and also for The Call of the Yukon expeditions. Additionally, he is guiding the snowmobile tours and he is also the camp site manager, finding the best spots and building the camps for the expeditions. Him and Rose are following all the ski expeditions and you will meet them every evening at camp!

Rose

She is Fabien and Raphaelle’s daughter. In December 2021, she was born in the middle of the winter, in the wilderness. She loves being outdoors and she is very attached to the dogs! She is skiing with her Mum and she loves to break the trails already! She participates in every single dog training with her dad, standing in the sled, telling the dogs “Ji!”, “Yap!”, “good dogs!”. She enjoys coming with us on the trails and she especially likes to go for winter camping! Will see in the future what she wants to do then! But pretty sure she will want her own dog team!