A Trip to Taloyoak
Why make such a big deal about a trip to another town? In the excerpt Traveling to Cambridge Bay, I wrote about my initial trip to Cambridge Bay. It was …
Snowblind on a Quad
“Mount” Pelly is an esker and is called “Uvayuq” in inuktitut, the native language of the Inuit. I know this now because Wikipedia told me so. There was no Wikipedia …
Out on the Land
The local description for travelling away from civilization onto the arctic tundra is going “out on the land.” Saturday, September 6 was a big day for me. It was the …
Taking Pics
It’s Saturday, September 27, 1997 and the weather was still holding. Most people have been saying that the icing up of the water in the bay is unusually late this …
Sleeping in an Igloo
Soon after the group “igloo building bee” (check that out here), the first brave souls to sleep in the igloo (the first night after we built the thing on March …
Building an Igloo
My commentary in 2020 Helping to build and later sleep in an igloo still remains a strong memory from my time in Cambridge Bay. After all, it’s not a common …
Traveling to Cambridge Bay
My 2020 Commentary I’d travelled into the unknown before. I still remember the leaving Saskatoon airport to travel first to Los Angeles on my way to Japan. That was a …
Where is Cambridge Bay?
So, Where is Cambridge Bay and What Does it Look Like? On August 25, 1997, I got on a plane bound for Cambridge Bay, Nunavut (then still the Northwest Territories). …
Winter Walk to the Waskahegan Fire Tower
It was a beautiful, clear day on Sunday, January 5th, when I decided to take a winter walk in the Ministik Bird Sanctuary starting at the U of A access …
An Example of TimelineJS in Action
I’m working on developing tutorials for pieces of software that I think are outside-of-the-box cool. One example is Knight Lab’s TimelineJS. For practice, I decided to create a Timeline of …