Heading North
Emily and I are about to drive away from our amazing base camp here in Madison, the Stirr home, and head North. We can't say thank you enough times or in enough different ways to Rick and Gail for hosting us, feeding us and putting up with us taking over almost every single room of their house with expedition gear. We can't begin to imagine how much more difficult this process would have been without their support and care. Thanks so much Rick and Gail!
Our first stop is Boulder Junction where we will pick up Meg and our second canoe and say farewell to all the folks already up at Manito-wish. It's an exciting time at Manito-wish right now: summer camp is about to start and there not one or two but six expeditionary level trips headed out to the Brooks Range, the Pacific coast and Nunavut this summer, as well as numerous shorter trips. We wish all the best to everyone working at Manito-wish and taking part in summer camp, outpost and leadership programs!
Early tomorrow morning we will be starting the four day drive to Yellowknife. If all goes well we will be there to meet Beth at the Yellowknife airport on Saturday afternoon and put in at Rae sometime on Sunday. Rumor has it that it's a late spring up north so we're fully expecting Marian Lake, where the trip begins, to be frozen. (Fully expecting might be a bit of an exaggeration, but after our experience on Wollaston in 2005 let's just say it will be a pleasant surprise if we can push our boats off into open water.)
As we leave our computers behind we will be handing off all of the technical details involved in posting our updates to Rob Williams--good friend to four of the BPE, and fiance to the fifth (I'll let you guess which one). While we're on the expedition we plan to send updates back once a week, probably on Sundays so you should see them appear on the blog during the first couple days of each week. If you want to receive the updates directly by email you can let Rob know at rlwilliams12@gmail.com.
More to come soon from the roadshow and beyond...
Our first stop is Boulder Junction where we will pick up Meg and our second canoe and say farewell to all the folks already up at Manito-wish. It's an exciting time at Manito-wish right now: summer camp is about to start and there not one or two but six expeditionary level trips headed out to the Brooks Range, the Pacific coast and Nunavut this summer, as well as numerous shorter trips. We wish all the best to everyone working at Manito-wish and taking part in summer camp, outpost and leadership programs!
Early tomorrow morning we will be starting the four day drive to Yellowknife. If all goes well we will be there to meet Beth at the Yellowknife airport on Saturday afternoon and put in at Rae sometime on Sunday. Rumor has it that it's a late spring up north so we're fully expecting Marian Lake, where the trip begins, to be frozen. (Fully expecting might be a bit of an exaggeration, but after our experience on Wollaston in 2005 let's just say it will be a pleasant surprise if we can push our boats off into open water.)
As we leave our computers behind we will be handing off all of the technical details involved in posting our updates to Rob Williams--good friend to four of the BPE, and fiance to the fifth (I'll let you guess which one). While we're on the expedition we plan to send updates back once a week, probably on Sundays so you should see them appear on the blog during the first couple days of each week. If you want to receive the updates directly by email you can let Rob know at rlwilliams12@gmail.com.
More to come soon from the roadshow and beyond...
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