Rainy Day in the Delta - it does happen on occasion

Things were a bit wet, so I elected to hike up through the brush from the old bull dozer frame to the Inuvik Satellite Station Facility and see how work was progressing on the new Canadian owned dish. A consequence of all the daylight and rain is that everything is now in full bloom. Meanwhile the install crew was working in 5 degree weather - one of the colder days in quite some time.

I cam across a old geo-magnetic marker tucked away in heavy alder / willow and likely not often visited, along with the hulk of an old heavy truck, among other things. The moss and lichens are thick in the trees on the ridge by the ISSF as the minor elevation gain makes the area just a little more austere for the pockets of trees.

I also went SE of the facility and came across one of the more twisted spruce in the area - this one grows up, then does a 160 degree turn, growing down, then horizontal for a while. lots of bent tree or "Dr Suess" trees in the area. The moose seem to like them as a good game trail went right through this thicket