Prefer a fifth anniversary "Return to Raddison". Since I never saw it in daylight, it would be a first trip to Radisson for me. "Hudson Bay West" is also intriguing. Will "North Bay" and the "ice road" be accessible in February?
These routes look fantastic; I'm going to take some time and read through them all before voting. I'm definitely IN, tho. I've set aside some vacation time from this year and (provided I still have a job in February) I'm psyched about doing this trip!
and I might miss this year because I am trying to hitch a ride to Svalbard to dog sled to the Noorderlicht, which ices in a fjord for the winter:
B U T... if I can't make it, I would be up for something wild and wooly. I think the ice road looks grand. I've been to Upper Peninsula, but in summer. It was drop dead gorgeous then.
Ross, AZ, a temp move, or have you gone to the Dark Side?
Oh, I sold DUCTTAPE II. I'm now on DUCTTAPE III, a 2008 Clubman S.
Do we yet qualify as a large enough group to do a group-buy on snow tires? I'm thinking I should probably pull the trigger on a set of Nokians for Scrat, and Mater needs new winter boots, too. Ugh.
Oh, and has anyone rented a satellite phone in years past? I found a couple places online that do rentals, about $40 for a week, provided you don't make any calls. Thought that might come in handy in an emergency. I know cell phones won't work up there..
I rented a crappy old globalstar SAT phone on the cheap for the Labrador trip. It didn't work up there. I think Blaine had one -- Iridium maybe? -- that one DID work.....
Yeah, from what I've seen, Globalstar bad, Iridium good, relatively speaking, at least. If I remember correctly, Globalstar uses geostationary satellites, so their coverage is fairly fixed. Iridium's satellites are not geostationary, so one will eventually come into range.
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