What we do at camp….

After dinner last night, while playing, or I should say trying to play cribbage, we had two grizzly bears, a mom and a 3 year cub, on the mountain behind us this kept us entertained for hours, looking through binoculars, range finders or anything else we could get our hands on. They were very hard to see but with the hunting guides (who were in camp and not out with clients) spotting scopes we had no problem. One of our drillers even got some photos through the scope.

Mile 108, Pump Station #4

Today we were working on site mile 108, we completed the drilling program just before the storm came in. our chopper arriving just as it started to rain, the first words out of the pilot’s mouth were “Get in, we have to go NOW”. We had been watching the sky all day, it was getting darker and darker and we could see the rain coming down all around us. We ended up flying through 30 miles of storm, I said that the turbulence in a chopper is something else, but it’s like…the only thing I can say is it’s like…being in a yo-yo with a 4 year old at the other end of the string.

Brian our pilot is an excellent chopper driver and brought us home safely through the storm.

This morning we had a small hear of caribou quick march past the site while we were laying out the boreholes. There were 3 bulls, one very large and 2 smaller, and between 13-15 cows and calves.

The large caribou bull is on the far right.

I did manage to get a close up of one of the lone bull that was following the heard at a distance.

 

We come across the Canol Hilton at Mile 108, but it was booked for the season. “Rooms to let for 50 cents, no phone, no pool, no pets” so the song goes…..

 

Main entrance. What no door-man?

The lounge, and in the back are two of the suites.

Only one truck out in the parking lot.

Mean while back at camp, it was spaghetti with caribou meat sauce, homemade focaccia bread and spice cake with lemon sauce for desert. After dinner while playing cribbage we were entertained by one of our drillers cutting Claire’s hair. This is the first time Kyle has done this sort of thing and he did his research on his “I” phone during dinner. He did a pretty good job.

Bye the bye I have been using the Gerber “Bear Grylles” Survival Knife in the field for the last 3 weeks. I have hacked through brush, split wood for a fire, cut communication wire (3 wire in armour wrap), hammered rock (to split for samples) pried apart wall sections (1/2” plywood on 2x4’s) and driven the blade through the plywood in other locations to expose the insulation, I have used the fire striker to start fires and the sharpener to put an edge back on my blade. The only thing I do not like about this knife is the whistle, it sucks!

Our next site will be Mile 111.4, Devil’s Pass….

Well that's all for now.

Cheers.