Comments on: a northern wardrobe

By: christinajane

christinajane — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 03:32:30 +0000

Cheers Rog. Yes have had to adjust to Fahrenheit due to the American ovens here in Canada! Hard to remember -40˚ on these sweltering +30˚ days!

By: Rog

Rog — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 03:02:04 +0000

Nice Blog! Surprised to see all your oven temps in faherenheit!

Nice description of what to wear in the cold, reminds me of going snowmobiling in YK in -41c and the track being very stiff!

By: Alasdair

Alasdair — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:32:12 +0000

Cheryl has walked back and forth pretty much since 1994 in all conditions and there were two winters that I biked back and forth and one where I walked. Given it’s dry and *usually* not windy – it’s not too bad when you’ve got the right clothing. Glad you and Jesse enjoyed the walk on the river – it’s a unique opportunity and my first time doing it in almost 19 years here. I ran it on Boxing Day and that was incredible

By: christinajane

christinajane — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:37:16 +0000

Yes – they do here! If only they closed the workplace too…

By: Anastasia

Anastasia — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:13:26 +0000

I’m getting cold just reading this! Why would you even think of leaving your house at -40C!? Even in Russian they close schools at such temperatures….

By: christinajane

christinajane — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 20:54:09 +0000

Wow Alasdair, negative 40! You and Sheryl are amazing. It’s definitely not such an issue if you sort out the wardrobe before you head out the door. We loved this morning’s adventure across the river, it had been on our to-do list since the start of winter. Thanks for organising it!

By: Alasdair Veitch

Alasdair Veitch — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 20:22:38 +0000

It’s interesting reading your thoughts on cold and dressing for cold I’ve lived in NWT and Labrador for some 30 years and there’s not much that you wrote that I’d change one wee bit! So, you’ve learned fast Christina. And yeah – I always find Yellowknife much colder than Norman Wells. Hope you and Jesse enjoyed the walk across the frozen Mackenzie River this morning – would make for a great blog post! I’ll send photos around to all the Walking Challenge group. Anyhow – cold is a state of mind and running/walking/skiing/biking at -40 is simply superb!

By: masqua

masqua — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:22:14 +0000

I think you ‘liked’ one of my posts… probably in the Reader. I did a self-portrait back in those wintry days I think you might and Jesse get a kick out of:

http://masqua.ca/2013/01/12/arctic-determination/

There were some of those long, long December nights that could only be compared to a frozen Hell, but then again, there were moments when the short sunlight made ice fog a crystalline marvel… like walking in air full of floating diamonds. Hard to forget things like that, especially when the ptarmigan run and the ravens talk back to me.

I loved the north, as did my parents, but my darling wife wasn’t so keen on it (insert LOL here) so we moved back to soft Ontario after three winters.

By: christinajane

christinajane — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:01:37 +0000

I can understand the bannock and Labrador Tea! What a culture up here huh. Oh Jesse can fully appreciate the brutality of loading on the apron mid-winter.. Nice to hear from a fellow Northerner. How’d you stumble across this?

By: masqua

masqua — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:38:27 +0000

About that cold, you may be right. I worked as a ramp rat on the tarmac of Yellowknife Airport and I swear, some days it was purely brutal out in the open. But I loved it anyways. My wolf-fur lined parky hood came in handy when loading Beavers, Otters, Hercs and old DC3′s with beer or Arctic Trout. It was all a long time ago (early 70′s), but I can still taste bannock dipped in Labrador Tea. I don’t think I ever really left the north because it never left me.

Good to see someone from north of 60 blogging here.