Camera

Can't get the camera to work!!! AHHH....Still working at it though.

Inuvik

I arrived!
No pictures yet...I still need to get a card for the camera.  Its been alright so far, only -20 but surprisingly doesn't feel all that cold.  Sun comes up around 11:30am and sets around 4pm but that time frame is starting to narrow very fast.  The town is pretty cute, population 3500.  All of the houses are built on platform sorta things and no basements because of the permafrost.  If they were built right on the ground it would cause it to thaw and then shift (it stays frozen all year round!).  Groceries are crazy expensive...I had to go to 3 grocery stores to get everything I needed, one has good veggies, one has a deli, and the third has everything else...after all that it cost about $160 and I got home unloaded and realized I really didn't even have anything!  The produce is horrible cause right now the only way to get up here is to fly so they have to fly all the food and everything in!  During the summer they have a ferry and then during the winter they have an ice road to get up here, but until the roads totally freeze, flying is the only way! 


Ok thats all for now. 

Northern Bound

To Inuvik I go!

I am actually really excited!.  Although it will pretty much be in the dead of winter and probably a balmy -35 deg, with approx. an hour of daylight its still gonna be awesome!

Here is a map of where I am going:

I leave on Wednesday the 18th.

Off to the land of the ice and snow!

Winter is in the air!

I am back from Penticton! I was there for a month on my last tour...it was the best! First time home for longer than a weekend in probably about 2 years...Kinda strange going home to go to work but i can't think of a better place to have to end up in.

I dog-sat a puppy a couple days ago for a night. This is her and she is beautiful! Its too bad I'm not a very good watch...I left her outside...she ate something she shouldn't have and then she was sick about 15 times in the night...Not even exaggerating! Poor girl!


I can't wait...

Winter is coming and it is going to be glorious. There is a shiny new (new to us) snowmobile waiting patiently outside! Now that there are two of them we no longer have to share a ride up the hill!!!

This was my way up last winter:
You can't really see in this picture but it is a tow rope attached to the sled with a bike tube (to absorb the impact cause it was STEEP in some places) But to be honest i'm kinda gonna miss that way up it was so fun...almost as much as going down!

This is my way up this winter:



The bottom one isn't quite ready yet...Jay has been rebuilding both of them for the past couple months!!! Isn't he wonderful! Now just trying to be patient waiting for the snow!

My past couple weeks in a nut-shell!

:)