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 Just back from visiting relatives in YK. Feels positively balmy here now. Had a nightime low of -36. 
 Here's a shot from the front window of their condo. Love aircraft, so I spent some good time watching the comings and goings of Tindi's frozen float base. Those twin Otters really truly a northern workhorse. They rarely sat still.


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Yellowknife from pilots monument hill.
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The Yellowknife to Detah ice road. About 6 kilometers long.
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On the ice road. They keep it clear. Flood and scrape it often. Notice the grooves.
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A meter or so thick. I think? Neat looking down through the ice.
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The Ravens are huge! You have to clean up after them...
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Out for a run. -20. Too cold to stay out long for southern folk.
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A early shot of some pins my daughter traded and collected. She eventually got over 100!
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A display at the territorial building.
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Nunavit (northern Quebec) throat singers. Incredible sound!
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A guitarist from northern Alberta, Neat shot.
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The 2008 Arctic Winter Games flame.
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Inside the athletes tent.
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Traditional sports. Finger pull.
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Wife and daughter out for a dogslead. The wifes back still hurts!
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Looks just like a dirty polar bear!
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Very  Cool  !

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Any more pics? I want to visit the great white north someday.


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I flew up to Thompson last May, not quite as far north but up there. Here are a few shots.

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i got stuck at CFS Alert on the northern tip of Ellesmere island around 2003 for 6 month

here i am at the sign post near the runway.



im at the side of a glacier



going for a dip on Canada Day



suntanning after the dip





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You really had a good taste of the north! 6 months on Ellesmere.

No way Steve was that picture of you sunning taken "after the dip". Don't ask how I suspect it wasn't.

Did you spend much time in the tracked vehicles, I saw these two Hagglund machines drive in and park just outside where we were staying. Pretty cool machines.

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here is a pict of the BVs out at the crash site where the canadian military flight went down a couple of years ago



here i am cruising out for a picnic in the back of one



looks like me. should be a law about showing that much manlyness on a website





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A buddy of mine went up and drove the Ice Roads for a couple years, Haven't called him this year, he may be there again. The country looks beautiful up there, but COLD! He says them Ravens will land on the trucks as there driving to beg for food. He has a pic of one sitting on the hood of his rig, eating a sandwich

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cool pics steve,makes me wonder what your doing working with me

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i thought it was everybody's dream to retire from the military and work part time in a hardware store.

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