Day: 30

Land of the Little Trees

Location: East End Artillery Lake

Latitude: 63deg 08’ 00’’

Longitude: 107deg 14’ 10’’

Distance Traveled: Not reported

There was a loss in Will's satellite connection during his daily sat-phone dispatch tonight, however, his journal entry transmission succeeded. Here is an audio sampling of his journal entry for Day 30. That's life in the Arctic at 50 below!

January 29, 2004

We headed east off the 60 mile long Artillery Lake into The Barrens. Artillery is boundary separating the forest to the west and barren lands to the east. We are now traveling in a thin transitional zone that I call The Land of the Little Sticks. Here, dwarf spruce, either separated or in small bonzai-like clumps dot the sparse landscape. Each on has its own personality, having survived the battling winds and cold.