Canol Trail - Day 4

Day 4

Morning comes early with a knock on the door at 0600h, call for breakfast. I know it got cold last night and if the cabin was not so dark I could see my breath. I like everybody else in the cabin reaches for their “long-johns” to pull them into the sleeping bag to warm for a few minutes before putting them on in the dark. 0oC the thermometer is saying, but as soon as the sun crests the mountains the temperature will rocket to the mid 20’s, meaning that we will be stripping layers all day only to put them back on when the sun goes down.

We finished working at Mile 170 (Pump House #6) today and moved our equipment from the wind swept mountain step the windless bug infested lowlands of mile 142.

Fog over Godlin Lake, at Ram’s Head Camp, at breakfast time.

Typical work area at site Mile 170, down the slope and into the hollow.

Another borehole location with what’s left of the pump house.

The surge tank. This was connected to the pipeline and in the event that the pumps quit, the oil could flow back down into this tank.

Canadian Helicopter at the edge of “Wee-creek” as named by Claire Brown of SENES.

The flight over to Mile 142. The mountains are spectacular! You have to see them.  The photos do not do them justice.

Very close to the side of the mountain, on the way back from mile 142 we flew over the top of all the mountains.

That grizzled old guy is me after 3 weeks in the field at 3 different sites, the truck or what’s left is an U.S. Army issued Studebaker pick-up.

The view on the way home.

Cheers, from the Mackenzie Mountains NWT.