Hommes Journal Part I (first 2 days)

Hommes du Nord 2008

Coppermine River

Journal

6/28/2008

We (2 hommes, 1 femmes, 3 drivers)have been driving for nearly 3 days, from Grand Marais to Yellowknife NWT. As it stands we have just finished a stop in Peace River, Alberta, Canada. We started our lengthy drive from Grand Marais with 36 hours of nearly non-stop to get to Edmonton, Alberta, through Regina and Saskatoon Saskatchewan. We have driven a little more than half of our total distance to Yellowknife we are a little less than 1000k from our destination right now. I have so far seen the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, which we are now driving through at 14:25 mountain standard time. We are planning another all night drive through the 29^th to hopefully reach Yellowknife by the 29^th . We have spent much of our time sleeping, watching movies in the van, reading and listening to music. All of this has been great, out first actual “camping” was behind a church about 40k outside Edmonton in a little town. It was quite cool outside, so I am hoping for very comfortable sleeping conditions once we reach the NWT, and eventually Nunavut.

6/29

We arrived in Yellowknife today around 1:00pm. And went straight to AirTindi. The float plane company that is doing the flights to the Back River for Katie's group, and Craig's group, and also for our food drop in 20 days. We then went and got food at a grocery store and went to a campsite in Yellowknife with a beach. We got our bags out and sorted out gear and other things, got fuel ready and organized group stuff. We then went to a guy's house in Yellowknife who works at AirTindi who will be holding our food until the drop date. We then went back to the camp ground and cooked dinner. Burgers (veggie burgers for me and Jack) and after two hours of cooking, a few of us went to the beach (Taylor, Alekos, Walter, Cameron, Becca and David), and we played Ultimate for nearly 2 hours and it was great. Then we went back to the campground and went to sleep.