Good point! Polar bears are bound to have high levels of mercury from eating animals which feed on plankton feeders in turn. I wonder if deer and moose
in the down wind area of coal fired power plants, would also have high levels of mercury?
Grizzly vs Black Bear Taste
- Thread starter TrevorMack
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Good point! Polar bears are bound to have high levels of mercury from eating animals which feed on plankton feeders in turn. I wonder if deer and moose
in the down wind area of coal fired power plants, would also have high levels of mercury?
Magnificent desolation can be great to visit but horrible to live with. There is a reason the alcoholism and suicide rate is so high there.
- Location
- AB foothills
You never answered the multiple questions Ardent asked...
I miss something? Or are you referring to the question he asked of CreamySmooth?
I spent short periods far north over a span of 15 years working in Mining Exploration. Short meaning anywhere from a few weeks, to a few months at a time, either out of a base camp of Atco trailers, or a prospector tent. Claim staking, laying out grids, geophysics, mapping, etc.... Usually in the fall/winter but sometimes in the summer, all depending on the terrain or if work needed to be done on or across water/wet ground. Some of this was done looking at potential kimberlites.
Is this what you meant?
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- AB foothills
Yup, my mistake. Thanks for the response anyways.
always liked my time over there but i didnt like that much the time in Kujjuaq ...
whale river communauties were defintely better places to be.
it was not flat that much there too ... from Schefferville to clear water lake to minto lake ... barren yes but not flat for sure .... bugs wait for the first cold frost ....
BigUglyMan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- New Scotland
Interesting. I North of 60 for 9 years and north of the Circle for 7 of those. I loved every damn minute of it and, speaking honestly, I'd go back tomorrow if the situation was different.
and if the situation was different in the Middle East we might holiday there too... Lol
Ardent
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That's proper amounts of time in the circle BUM, I was wondering if "lots of time" could be measured in less than a year cumulatively. Many coworkers (and members of this forum, not to out him but pitchedlink I believe is one) have worked high North for a proper long period of time. One pilot's father is still flying and is what we figure to be the oldest flying commercial helicopter pilot in Canada, still has a medical at 78 I think it was. He's been doing far north work for half a century and you can't keep him south. My grandfather spent a lot of time in the Arctic (air force during the Cold War), also would go back if he could. Member JHC-II has flown for the highest north lodge in Canada (Fred Hamilton's), and I picked Fred up from his floatplane engine failure last year... All those guys same story, itch to go back.. At least that's the way it seems chatting with them, perhaps JHC will catch wind and chime in, his "southern retreat" where he winters and traps is still pushing 60 degrees. He does cheat and hit Africa as others do on the list but I'm digressing...
So to creamysmooth, cleft, and Robert you'll have to forgive me for noting the advice, but continuing to go far north at any opportunity.
I've had a couple tastes and find it spectacular, hope to have a good five or ten up there (speaking from a paltry 58 north at present!) and after that may have formed a decent opinion.
So to creamysmooth, cleft, and Robert you'll have to forgive me for noting the advice, but continuing to go far north at any opportunity.
I've had a couple tastes and find it spectacular, hope to have a good five or ten up there (speaking from a paltry 58 north at present!) and after that may have formed a decent opinion.
That's proper amounts of time in the circle BUM, I was wondering if "lots of time" could be measured in less than a year cumulatively. Many coworkers (and members of this forum, not to out him but pitchedlink I believe is one) have worked high North for a proper long period of time. One pilot's father is still flying and is what we figure to be the oldest flying commercial helicopter pilot in Canada, still has a medical at 78 I think it was. He's been doing far north work for half a century and you can't keep him south. My grandfather spent a lot of time in the Arctic (air force during the Cold War), also would go back if he could. Member JHC-II has flown for the highest north lodge in Canada (Fred Hamilton's), and I picked Fred up from his floatplane engine failure last year... All those guys same story, itch to go back.. At least that's the way it seems chatting with them, perhaps JHC will catch wind and chime in, his "southern retreat" where he winters and traps is still pushing 60 degrees. He does cheat and hit Africa as others do on the list but I'm digressing...
So to creamysmooth, cleft, and Robert you'll have to forgive me for noting the advice, but continuing to go far north at any opportunity.
This is tangential to the thread, but I've travelled around enough to know that different people have different experiences of places, going north to fly (which they are no doubt passionate about) is different than going north to fix toilets.
That said I'd love to see the north, 60 is about as far as I have been.
If I was just Flying, Hunting, or fishing I probably would enjoy it as others have. My experiences up there were on foot, quite solitary, and finding I needed what the north doesn't have to do my job in comfort. It's hard to make a 4' tall 4" x 4" claim post out of grass. No shelter, near impossible to find firewood, etc.
Would I go back? If my reason for going was different than what I was doing before, in a minute. I wouldn't have to get dropped off in a swamp, and I wouldn't have to be there for long periods alone with a weekly plane visit lol
Would I go back? If my reason for going was different than what I was doing before, in a minute. I wouldn't have to get dropped off in a swamp, and I wouldn't have to be there for long periods alone with a weekly plane visit lol
I could see where being up there alone would become tiresome..... The land is very "desolate" and can make you feel like you are alone on the planet, which is something I really enjoyed for a few days at a time, but not sure that it would be something I would want as a daily lifestyle for an extended period....
longbranch*
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Victoria,BC.
I heard once that both Grizz's and Polar are deemed "not fit for human consumption" by the government and that is why you could hunt them for the hide only. Maybe I'm wrong.
the spank
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Planet Earth Wearing My Tinfoil Hat
Well they are hunting bears. You don't need any vision, your nose can line you up on the darned things.
Yes I dislike bears. They remind me of Liberals, total scroungers.
sorry i do not get: as there is some places where they use that meat for big celebrations.
not fit for human consumption where did you read or hear that?
weekly plane visit what a lux ... we had the longest time 3 weeks without a plane but radio vacation ... luckily three staffs with a cood cook and good game and fish around so i wont complain and it was only at 58 so not that north lol ...
weekly was the norm, once went three months with no contact other than an old spilsbury HF radio. Always had to cook for ourselves/self. When we did get weekly visits it was perishables and more work supplies. That is where I learned to use the permafrost and moss as a cooler. The most entartaiment I remember was a curious and friendly fox. Lol. Lots of books and magazines help keep you from going nutz
I've skinned grizzlies that stunk so bad that it would make a maggot puke, with inch wide tapeworms hanging out of their ass and yards of surplus worm in the creek and hanging from trees. There were also some kind of obvious parasites about the size of a finger joint. One of them was 1/2 finished eating another bear in equal condition. Inedible isn't much of a leap from there.
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