The views here are breathtaking. If you look closely at this picture you can see some amazing cliffs when I first saw this I thought for sure that this was a quarry or something man made. These cliffs are enormous and out in the middle of nowhere.
This is what perma-frost looks like when you dig it up and let it thaw. This is the first time this bit of ground has thawed in several thousand years and probably hundreds of thousands of years.
This is what a man made feature looks like. Not quite as attractive as the natural features. This is where we are blasting and crushing rock for our project. We use the gravel to build roads, make concrete, make stable pads to build buildings, tanks, culverts, wharfs and pipelines on.
This my office which now has a real blind over the window not a towel as you see here. The sun believe it or not, is very hot through glass even in the north. I had to make do with what I had. That is one key to getting things done here in the North. Never discard anything because with limited resources everything can be used.
This is the jetty behind the camp and that is the wildlife lookout and yes he is armed. When the ice leaves the bears come ashore because they can no longer hunt from the ice.
Where there is water and a wharf you will find a man fishing. The object of this expedition was Arctic Char but all my fishing buddy here caught was a two horn sculpin known here as the ugly fish.
Here again is our man made feature from a long distance away. Because there is little or no vegetation it is easy to see the features. The feature behind the machinery is what is known as a Diabase Dyke that was formed when lava flowed between two existing hills and cooled. This stuff makes great gravel.
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