Well, the vacation is officially over. The second trip to a remote northern community showed me what it's really like to work up here. Between getting tossed around in my tiny plane, working long days and dealing with shitty weather I am starting to gain a bit more of an appreciation for what it takes to spend an entire career working up north, nevermind actually living up there. This week's excursion was to url=http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=sachigo%20lake&rlz=1B3GGLL_en___CA379&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wlSachigo Lake, a small community just northwest of my first destination, url=http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=bearskin%20lake&rlz=1B3GGLL_en___CA379&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wlBearskin lake. Interestingly enough, the two trips were originally supposed to be combined, but because of a death in the community at Sachigo the whole place shut down... apparentl
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