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Inuvik Slideshow
Inuvik
Travel Blogs from Inuvik, Canada
At the top of the world
So I've been in Inuvik for a week, the town is small enough it feels like I have met everyone by now (I definitely know all the town drunks as they turn up in the ER every other day). It has been snowing everyday since I got here and it has never been ...
30 days of night
... about 6x the size of New Zealand and it has a total population of only 35,000 (that’s right even Timaru has more people). Inuvik with its 3500, is the second largest town but the funny thing is there is no road that connects it with the rest of the ...
Did A Pingo Eat Your Baby?
... towers. It felt like the present wasn't what was promised 40 years ago. Sunday, July 20th - Latitude: 68 degrees North Inuvik, NWT Disaster strikes. Someone on the Herschel Island tour cancelled. The tour needs a minimum of 4 people to break ...
Into the Arctic Circle
... . People start going a little crazy then and suicide rates explode but thankfully I would be gone by then. Inuvik regional hospital is the northern most hospital in North America and serves the Mackenzie Basin area , the second largest arctic ...
Sledding and Huskies
A blizzard hit Inuvik today unleashing brutal winds and dumping a whole lot of snow. All flights (the only mode of transport in and out of this little arctic town) were cancelled in the morning and I started to get a little edgy, as I am due to fly off ...
Up The Dempster Without A Paddle
... mountains (incidentally my third crossing of the continental divide while on the Dempster) the clouds lightened. I could make to Inuvik. I think I can. I think I can. At Fort McPherson the sun came out and everything was fine driving for that last ...
somewhere nowhere...
... drei Tagen, gesamthaft 10600 gefahrenen Kilometern und mit einem nun schwarzen Büssli, unsere nördlichste Ortschaft auf dieser Reise: Inuvik. Weiter in den Norden gehts ab hier nur im Winter auf einer Eisstrasse nach Tuktoyaktuk. Ein Eskimo flickte ...
Near Ice Road Truckers
... season from local movie rental stores. A production crew is filming new episodes on the winter road between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T. Four the show's original drivers, including Debogorski, are involved in the second season. "This summer, ...
To the Arctic and Beyond
... goes thousands of feet below the surface, with only the top several feet thawing each summer. Groceries are relatively expensive in Inuvik, but check out the price of perishable goods like milk.... $11 per gallon! Still, that is exactly double the price ...
This Was a Day Off?
... a longer look at the wide variety of offerings. At the Town Office I bought 3 lottery tickets. It's the 50th Anniversary of Inuvik as a town and the 50/50 draw is on Sunday. While waiting in line I was behind a woman complaining that some ...
Diving Into the Dempster
... , we filled up the tank, and headed back towards the Dempster, turned the corner and took a picture of the sign indicating 735km to Inuvik. At Highway speeds, that is a smooth 7 hours. On the Dempster, it is 14 hours of bumpy riding. I took it slow ...
Crystal Light
The water is yellow. I've heard not to eat yellow snow - but what about when the water is yellow? The TOI (Town of Inuvik) gets its water from the Mackenzie River in the winter. In the summer it comes from Hidden Lake (at least I think ...
Brrrrrrr!!
Today it hit about -18 degrees and boy did I feel it. It's been getting colder in the mornings and I finally gave up the fight against the scarf. It is also really dark in the mornings. The sun rises behind a hill on the edge of ...
Tooth
I had a wisdom tooth pulled. First tooth I have ever lost. Not too big a deal - but it has kept me from writing this blog. First - the pain of the tooth (I lost a chunk off the upper left wisdom tooth) and then the 2 week wait to get ...
Report Cards
I am exhausted. It is my first report card session in a LONG time. I have 83 report cards to do. HELP!! I spend a lot of time at school. I forgot to show you one of the unique features of the school. They have these ...
Cataracts
I am so glad that I got cataracts. Best surgery ever. Thank you Dr. Piemontesi for doing my interocular lens replacement. When the snow is slapping you in the face and the wind is whipping your hood around ... I am so glad I don't wear ...
My Walks
I walk to and from school twice a day - as I go home for lunch. We'll see how long that lasts when the weather gets bad. Right now it is quite enjoyable. This morning the snow was softly drifting and swirling such that when it ...
Garbage Bags or Tinfoil?
Garbage bags vs Tinfoil --- and the winner appears to be garbage bags. Last night in the Lounge at the Eskimo Inn I was chatting with folks and mentioned that I needed more tinfoil as the two boxes I'd gone through were not enough to block out ...
My House
I just got word that my stuff is on the truck and riding around town until a date and time can be set to deliver it. Odd system. I was asked to provide pictures of my new place so here they are. It really is quite a swank ...
SNOW
We had a fair bit of snow today. It's gone now and it's quite mild out - but at lunch I walked home in the snow and came back to school with it really coming down. I nearly wore my boots back to school and I'm so glad I didn't. I'd look ...
New Car Smell
I can tell that the new car smell is beignning to wear off. I am not writing as much as when I got here. That may be a blessing to some of you. I am still excited about walking home from school after 10 PM in the light - though I can tell ...
What I Did on My Vacation
... a good time. (One of the teachers spent 3 days in the Toronto airport before making it to Newfoundland.) I stayed in Inuvik and had a very relaxing Break. Danny (the Foods teacher) invited me to her place for Xmas dinner. She is ...
The Mad Trapper
There were more meetings. I did learned about cable and internet options and how to get your health card (that the NWT tries to avoid giving you to save money) and Lorne talked about the importance of taking vitamin D. The code for ...
Surprise
I got up and made blueberry pancakes. I decided to add a fried egg and it had no sooner hit the pan than the phone rang. Dianne invited me over for breakfast so I told her I'd bring the pancakes. We had a relaxing morning and then ...
Slush
Ocotober is here and so is the slush. The snow was pretty. Then it froze. The next day I walked to school in freezing rain. Then it got really nice out -- the sun felt great. That nice feeling was short-lived when it ...
Yellowknife to Inuvik
... like two. This was not a direct flight as there was a stop in Norman Wells. The pilot announced that the temperature in Inuvik was 6 degrees. What?! Now I wished I had put the lining into my jacket. We had a chance to get off ...
Sunday
It is not easy to sleep when the sun doesn't go down until midnight and then comes up before I have any intention of stirring. I phoned Roman, my new principal, and we made a date to meet at the school around 2:30. I made toast and then ...
The New School
They are building a new school in Inuvik. I think the cost is in the multi-millions. The not so great news is that they are just now starting to pile-drive.........right outside my classroom window. Oh joy! Here is a little sample of ...