We cut for about 2and a half hours and brought back approximately a full cord and a bit of wood. Lots of people think face cords are real cords, of course a face cord only 25% of a cord. I found some bigger trees which when cut (don’t really consider them to be felled as they are so stunted) looked to be in the 200 year range.
Sunday I headed over to my climbing area about twenty minutes south of town to break the trail in and check things out, snowy day but far less pack on the ground compared to last year. Things look good and time to start climbing now that the light is back.
Out on the highway by Campbell Creek Day Use Area, the Mackenzie Valley Fibre Optic Link project is forging south to connect a 48 strand line to Yellowknife so we don’t have to depend on the existing microwave link that is short on bandwidth and not all that reliable. The route will follow the 40 years old right of way that has been in place for the now defunct Mackenzie Valley pipeline and eventual highway. They have set a field camp at the creek and are plowing a right of way ahead of a commercial sized ditch witch which is laying the cable about 60cm down below the duff line.
For some reason a lone bike is residing out in the winter landscape.
Later that day took the sled out for a spin out to the Inuvik Satellite Station Facility (nice sundog emulating a rainbow) via the Shell Lake trails then back through Airport Lake then the channel, which is open in places (!) to the Mackenzie.
From there i headed past the docks where a house that was being moved in the morning was precariously left perched on the river bank for a number of hours – can’t imagine that the framing was doing too well in that position. The Canadian Coast Guard motor vessel Eckaloo is berthed for the winter nearby.
Lastly I went up towards Noel Lake. The trail had been groomed since last week and was good sledding on a smooth track, found some deep drifts to play in on some of the lakes. Nice sunset on the way back.
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