Day: 129

Rest Day Relaxation

Temperature: 27F

Location: Melville Peninsula

Latitude: 67deg 44’ 39 ’’ N

Longitude: 83deg 39’ 06” W

Distance Traveled: 0 Miles - Day Off

It’s a day off for us and we slept in this morning. It was cloudy and pretty warm, about 27 degrees, the warmest day so far. The terrain that we’re in is really gently rolling terrain. With the clouds and the snow and real white out conditions, it’s very soft lighting very conducive to rest. There wouldn’t be really anywhere to walk to, usually on a day off we like to take a walk. But in this rolling country here, there’s really no where to walk to and it would be pretty easy to get lost here in the white out. So, we sat around the tent most the day, did some writing, our usual day off routine. The dogs have rested up good and we’ll be leaving early tomorrow morning. We’ll probably have about a 6-day travel here to our next village, Iglulik. Actually there’s another village called Hall Beach 95 miles from here. We’re expecting to be there on Tuesday night, probably only spend the night there and move on to Iglulik for Thursday. Iglulik is the cultural center for the native Canadian Inuit, a really fascinating village, a village I’ve never been to. It’s also the area where they had the Canadian Eskimo Dog. My breed of dog that I started 30 years ago. The mainstay of that breed were from Iglulik dogs so it’s really nice to bring the breed back after 30 years to their roots. We all are very anxious to get into town; we’ve been isolated for a very long time. Not so much that, but we want to mingle with the people and the great culture there. Record high for the expedition today, 27 degrees above zero, snowing.