Hey PDMLers,
On Monday I'll unsubscribe for a couple of weeks, so please don't discuss
anything useful or important.
My trip: As a Canadian who's lived in the States for a long time, I got to
missing my roots, and decided that it was time to visit the part of Canada
that has always attracted me, at least in books.
So the itinerary is something like this:
Denver->Ottawa
Ottawa->Iqaluit (on Baffin Island; biggest town, capital of Nunavut)
Iqaluit->Cape Dorset (also on Baffin, home of many famous artists)
Cape Dorset->Iqaluit->Resolute (the gateway to the high arctic, that is,
north of 75 degrees)
Resolute->Beechey Island (to see graves of some members of the Franklin
expedition of ~1845, all 128 of whom were lost)
Resolute->Eureka (weather station at ~80 degrees north, on Ellesmere Island)
Eureka-> Tanquaray Fjord (82 N, about as high as you can land in summer in a
Twin Otter)
Tanquary Fjord->Grise Fjord (most northern settlement in North America, only
about 8 Inuit families)
Back to Iqaluit via Clyde River and Qikiqtarjuaq; then Ottawa and Denver.
Equipment: an IQZoom (Espio) 105 WR for wet work and a ZX-5n with a sigma
zoom, 40 rolls of Supra 400, various small stuff (batteries!), TRIPOD (in
spite of the shlepping), mosquito nets, 100% DEET ("do not use for more than
2 weeks or you will die"), polypropylene everything, oh, and a tuque, eh.
The sun won't go down at all once we're north of 66.
I'll be looking for poutine at the Iqualuit Burger King...NOT.
A bientot, tout la gang.
John
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