Scott picking out a potential route. (image 1 of 18)
Reviewing the map on the Churchill River. (image 2 of 18)
Taking a break along the bank of the Churchill River. (image 3 of 18)
cold. (image 4 of 18)
Ptarmigan for dinner. This was an extremely hard day. Lot of "post holing" through a crusty layer of ice then into deep snow beneath. When pulling your snow shoe up it would hang on the crusty ice shelf. After seeing these ptarmigan we decided to call it a day. Certainly one of the top meals we had (perhaps the suffering made it that much better). (image 5 of 18)
Scott punching through the trees. (image 6 of 18)
Headed upstream from the cabin with the goal of exploring off the edge of our map. We had a couple very close calls during this trip. (image 7 of 18)
One of my all time favorite photos. Everything about it screams "hard work" in no mans land. At this point we're currently 25 miles up stream from the safety of the cabins. (image 8 of 18)
Early morning tent break down. (image 9 of 18)
A tiny spec of a human hugging the left bank. (image 10 of 18)
On the Churchill river, the only real elevation we encountered. You can see me doing a "Rocky" pose in the upper left of this image. (image 11 of 18)
We took the hard way up and the fun way down (image 12 of 18).
Wipe Out (image 13 of 18)
Trying to hydrate in bitter cold temps (image 14 of 18)
Couldn't be happier (image 15 of 18)
Sketchy skiing near open water (image 16 of 18)
Ran out of white gas on our last night of this trip. We built a huge fire to try and warm up but to no avail. Wasn't bad once we got in our bags but the following morning was brutal (image 17 or 18)
VERY sketchy skiing (image 18 of 18)
“I have clinched and closed with the naked North, I have learned to defy and defend;
Shoulder to shoulder we have fought it out — yet the Wild must win in the end.”