Blogs from Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada, North America - page 2

A Bulldozer in a Miserable Place… It comes as no surprise that nobody has ever coined the phrase “as comfortable as lying as under a broken bulldozer”. Bulldozers are big, clumsy and heavy, and all components of the machine are cumbersome and awkward. Bulldozers typically work in miserable environments! Working alongside their mechanical companions, they push rock and dirt to allow for a variety of construction projects, mining operations and the like – this bulldozer was used for constructing a runway… But, like all machines, they can break. When this bulldozer broke it was at the end of a muddy and icy runway at the end of the world… Ten months later, it remained, half buried in snow and looking rather sorry! It was zero degrees Celsius with light, freezing drizzle and a north wind when ... read more

but the sunsets were amazing when i 1st wrote about the sun and how it stays light but whent dimmer i thought that was wat its like but as the days haave been going by its been going brighter and brighter throughout the night as im writing this it is broad daylight outside and it is around 3 in the morning when we had are few days rest inbetween them leaving and us leaving to checkpoint 1 one of our teams had a polar bear encounter were 2 curious young bears came and ivestigated their pulks here are some pics that were taken luckily no one was hamed and neither were the bears just a few shredded socks and pulks by the young bears playing with the pulk and looking inside whilst i was at checkpoint ... read more

group photo of the competitors and the organisers me at the start line the competitors at the start line about to start a 400 mile race to the north pole AND THEIR OFF!!! on their long long journey walking to the north pole ... read more

hey everyone i wrote a great blog and it got deleated so ill try and do it again the best i can we left from ottawa to resolute today if n e one is interested this were i am in relation to the pole first we arrived in iqaluit then we changed plane to a twin propeller plane wich is tiny yes im serious this photo was taken from the very front of the plain so it is this small and we were flying very very low as u can see all their is is ice and snow as far as u can see in any direction then we stopped off in iglulik for an hour to refule (this is the airport) that little person statue is called an inukshuk its used to guide inuits and ... read more

hey every one sorry i havt updated or posted in aaaaagggggggggeeeeeeesssssssss just been busy but heres a big update i was working solid for the 1st few days heres some pics from around town thats the local school the komituk the locals sleds outside the school the get dragged behind the back of the snowmobiles the local church the only police car in town and their are only 2 or 3 police men in the station i whent on a bit of hike and took some pics thats the size of the town me and chris meet some of the local kids their fascinated by us and amazed by my earing and piercings they allways ask about them and follow us were ever we go we whent out for our 1st night training sleeping in the ... read more