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Yesterday (Friday) we drove in to our penultimate site of this trip. Garden River is a small community of about 500 people just inside Wood Buffalo National Park. The most interesting thing about it is getting there. Last time I … Continue reading →

We started our gradual trip home today. There are still 2 stations to hit on the way back but it’s nice to be going South. Here’s some of the stuff we saw today. A herd of buffalo on the side … Continue reading →

Today (Wednesday) we took a Piper Navajo to the autostation at Lupin Mine. It was great to ride on a slightly bigger aircraft than yesterday. Compared to the Turbo Beaver, this one allows for legroom, it goes way faster (300km/hr … Continue reading →

Some of the things we saw around Yellowknife:

Tuesday we took a Turbo Beaver on floats to Fort Reliance. We landed and docked at Trophy Lodge. They rent cabins and fishing boats. Some year I hope to try the fishing here. It looks like it would be a … Continue reading →

Monday we did 2 stations, each one is about an hour from Yellowknife by helicopter. The first stop was Inner Whalebacks Island. There used to be more to this station but there are some curious grizzy bears in the area who … Continue reading →

Sunday I flew to Yellowknife to catch up with one of the level 5 techs who has been working on the sites (sort of) near here. We’re doing 4 autostations in the NWT and 2 in Alberta on the drive home.

No bears to fight today either. We only saw one little black bear on the side of the road today but we saw lots of other critters. There were 4 white tail deer on the road, 2 bucks and 2 … Continue reading →

Well, that’s day 1 done. More bear patrol tomorrow. We saw 4 bears today, all on the road. Three ran away as soon as the truck got close but this guy was too busy chowing down to care about us.

Today I am bear guard for a level 5 tech who is doing a quarterly inspection on the automatic weather station at CFB Cold Lake. It’s a bit different from the stuff I usually work on but it’s still cool. … Continue reading →