Day: 128

A Very Moody Day

Temperature: 15F

Location: Melville Peninsula

Latitude: 67deg 44’ 39 ’’ N

Longitude: 83deg 39’ 06” W

Distance Traveled: 25 Miles

It was a pretty good day of travel. We traveled about 25 miles and we were on land most of the way. We did find a trail, or remnants of a trail, around noon and we followed that off and on. It goes the direction of Iglulik and we’re still about 140 miles straight line to Iglulik, probably more like 175 miles, but we made the section now from one community to another. What we’ve been doing is following trails as far as we could follow them from one community, in this case Pelly Bay. Then we traveled about 100 miles through unknown country until we found a trail, or a remnant of anther trail, which leads to the next community. So we’re now on the downside heading into Iglulik and we saw a lot of caribou today. The weather improved a little bit it was windy against our face. It was an east wind and then we turned north traveling in the direction of Iglulik. The wind shifted, Murphy’s law, shifted then from east to north. It cooled off a little bit which brought clearing skies. It was a very moody day, beams of sunshine, rolling white hills. It’s really kind of a Zen like topography around here. It was a beautiful day of travel and so we’re camped here.