Sublimity…

I know it’s been awhile since I wrote that last post, and I’ll admit there was some suspense – leaving you hanging as to what was going to happen – so I guess I should start by finishing off that tale. Basically, it all turned out like I expected, the bureaucracy chugged and churned, but [...]

The Yellowknife airport is beginning to feel like home, I’ve been out there at least once ever day since I came back from Snap Lake on Thursday, and most days have spent at least several hours out there. Given my love of planes, I’m certainly not complaining about this, in fact it’s been great. Thursday [...]

So the gear is all packed up and we’re ready to get out of here. It’s a little hard to imagine that we’ve been here in Snap Lake for a week, at times it feels like it was only a few days, while other times it seems like it has been a month! As always, [...]

Today started bright and early for me (litterally) as we had a fire alarm at 4:15am, and with sunrise occuring at around 2:30am these days (sunset around 12:00am) it was truely bright and early. I thought my days of fire drills were behind me after I left rez, but apparently not. My first thought when [...]

So here I am in the middle of nowhere, yet these days even the middle of nowhere isn’t very far away due to the miracles of satellite internet service. We arrived at the Snap Lake mine camp this morning, and have spent the day so far getting our final “orientation traning” and then getting our [...]