what's up people. it's david this time. i decided to show everyone some of my pics from my trip up to canada for work. it was awesome. it took 3 days to fly up there, but it was worth it. i flew from salt lake, to denver, to edmonton, to yellowkife, to norman wells, to inuvik, and finally to the radar site on cape parry. this is a statue of a polar bear and a seal in the airport in yellowknife.
this next pic is in inuvik, one of canada's northern most cities. its on the western side of canada kind of close to alaska just south of the arctic ocean. you can't see it very well, but this is the begining of one of the ice roads you hear about. this dude in the white truck was throwing big rocks out there to decide if he wanted to drive out there or not. crazy fool. the black dot in the ice is a little ski boat frozen out there.
i took this little plane to the radar site. it was about an hour and half ride. kind of a cool little plane though. they call it a twin otter.
the radar sites come with their own runway, usually, and in this picture you can see two “trains” as they call them which are the two long rows of building. the radar is in the tall golf ball, and the other two radomes are the communication stuff. as you can see, its right on the edge of the arctic ocean. pretty cold. i got off the plane and the wind was blowing like crazy. with the wind chill it probably was close to minus 15. not too bad right for may? Idaho is worse.
this is my little project. a little door to fill a hole in the wall. its meant to keep the snow out, but open up when the Air Conditioner turns on. yeah, the AC. so it worked really well. this was the main reason I was up there. there was a bunch of other stuff to keep me busy cause it really only took a few minutes to install these.
this is another picture of the radar. the tower its sitting on has been there since the fifties and the radar is as old as I am. so there is enough stuff breaking on them for me to figure out how to fix.
so on the way out, I decided that instead of taking the plane, I wanted to take a ride in the helicopter. it was leaving at the same time so I convinced the HVAC guy to trade me seats. so since it was my first time and I was so stoked about it, they let me ride shotgun.
we took off and flew over the arctic ocean a ways. these are the smoking hills. you can see a big crack in the ice. they were saying the ice they drilled through at the site was seven feet thick. we could see a bunch of seals though chillin out on the ice. I couldn’t get a very good picture though. no polar bears. I was hoping one would jump out and get some lunch. we did see a herd of muskox though. they are an interesting looking beast. look it up if you’ve never heard of them. we circled around and chased them a little bit in the helicopter.
this is a picture of pretty much everything I saw from the two and a half hour helicopter ride. a lot of nothing. there were a ton of lakes and rivers, some baby pine trees, but other than that, there wasn’t very much.
probably one of the weirdest things I saw, except for the drunken Eskimo, was the sun. this picture was taken before I went to bed the last night. it was around 11:30 at night and its not really even close to setting. the sun would supposedly set around 2 am and would rise before 5 am. it was crazy. I never saw it dark at all. even if I woke up in the middle of the night, I would look at the window and still see that it was light outside. all the windows had big heavy shades on them so you could get to sleep. I thought it was kinda cool. it would be late, but it seamed like I had a bunch of energy cause it was still bright outside. kind of a weird feeling.
that was about the end of my adventures. I took a ton of pictures that turned out really cool, but its hard to tell on a blog. it was an awesome trip. it was good to get home. stella was the coolest. her and Julia picked me up from the airport and she was pretty excited to see me. except for when she saw her bottle, then she was more excited to see it. funny baby.
this next pic is in inuvik, one of canada's northern most cities. its on the western side of canada kind of close to alaska just south of the arctic ocean. you can't see it very well, but this is the begining of one of the ice roads you hear about. this dude in the white truck was throwing big rocks out there to decide if he wanted to drive out there or not. crazy fool. the black dot in the ice is a little ski boat frozen out there.
i took this little plane to the radar site. it was about an hour and half ride. kind of a cool little plane though. they call it a twin otter.
the radar sites come with their own runway, usually, and in this picture you can see two “trains” as they call them which are the two long rows of building. the radar is in the tall golf ball, and the other two radomes are the communication stuff. as you can see, its right on the edge of the arctic ocean. pretty cold. i got off the plane and the wind was blowing like crazy. with the wind chill it probably was close to minus 15. not too bad right for may? Idaho is worse. 
this is my little project. a little door to fill a hole in the wall. its meant to keep the snow out, but open up when the Air Conditioner turns on. yeah, the AC. so it worked really well. this was the main reason I was up there. there was a bunch of other stuff to keep me busy cause it really only took a few minutes to install these. 
this is another picture of the radar. the tower its sitting on has been there since the fifties and the radar is as old as I am. so there is enough stuff breaking on them for me to figure out how to fix. 
so on the way out, I decided that instead of taking the plane, I wanted to take a ride in the helicopter. it was leaving at the same time so I convinced the HVAC guy to trade me seats. so since it was my first time and I was so stoked about it, they let me ride shotgun. 
we took off and flew over the arctic ocean a ways. these are the smoking hills. you can see a big crack in the ice. they were saying the ice they drilled through at the site was seven feet thick. we could see a bunch of seals though chillin out on the ice. I couldn’t get a very good picture though. no polar bears. I was hoping one would jump out and get some lunch. we did see a herd of muskox though. they are an interesting looking beast. look it up if you’ve never heard of them. we circled around and chased them a little bit in the helicopter.
this is a picture of pretty much everything I saw from the two and a half hour helicopter ride. a lot of nothing. there were a ton of lakes and rivers, some baby pine trees, but other than that, there wasn’t very much.
probably one of the weirdest things I saw, except for the drunken Eskimo, was the sun. this picture was taken before I went to bed the last night. it was around 11:30 at night and its not really even close to setting. the sun would supposedly set around 2 am and would rise before 5 am. it was crazy. I never saw it dark at all. even if I woke up in the middle of the night, I would look at the window and still see that it was light outside. all the windows had big heavy shades on them so you could get to sleep. I thought it was kinda cool. it would be late, but it seamed like I had a bunch of energy cause it was still bright outside. kind of a weird feeling. 
that was about the end of my adventures. I took a ton of pictures that turned out really cool, but its hard to tell on a blog. it was an awesome trip. it was good to get home. stella was the coolest. her and Julia picked me up from the airport and she was pretty excited to see me. except for when she saw her bottle, then she was more excited to see it. funny baby.
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Looks like a fun (and cold) trip! I'm jealous you got to ride shot gun in a helicopter! That's so cool!
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