Monthly Archives: February 2008

A curious dog from the Arctic Chalet’s dog team. If you’re reading this before noon Friday, tune in to Northwind (am 860 in Inuvik) between 12 and 1 to hear sound from the Youth Centre’s “Mushkateers” expedition. More photos coming soon! http://www.cbc.ca/northwind/ This is the Northwind streaming site..check your timezones because it plays on Mountain Time. 

  Here are two logos, for a local Geophysics company and the Mackenzie Hotel.Both use circles and look very ‘northern.’  There is also a theme of cooperation, which is very well done. 

  Here’s a vinyl record from the CBC’s dusty old back room…an Inuit record called Uvagut: For our children’s future.Many CBC recordings have preserved the traditional language in song form.Here, the song titles are surprisingly melancholy. For example, the song “I am not sure I’ll be with my girlfriend forever.”Not all ‘traditional’ music is about caribou hunting!

These are Ookpiks!They are fur owls, which are available at craft fairs and the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation gift shop.

Sunlight hours are getting longer each day.Here’s a view from around 8:30am.

Here’s a close look at a Yukon plate. The NWT has its polar bear shape, while the Yukon celebrates Gold Rush history. 

When it gets cold, the ice fog nearly covers the streets here.

This building near Aurora College needs a new coat of paint.

 A familiar sight in Inuvik: A bottle of cooking sherry, which apparently has been finished with a little soda. Eeew. 

A truck travels in the early evening, with headlights on. 

There is now sunlight from about 9am to 7pm, and the temperatures have been uncannily warm, hovering around -8 degrees celcius. (And this is supposed to be the coldest month of the year!) 

(Edit: this was incorrectly labelled this morning as a morning photo.)

Here’s a vinyl copy of Laid Back Sunshine Reggae: There is a stamp that says “please return to CBC Inuvik.”(Also, further irony, a track called Whitehorse.) 

Interesting layers of trees, as the ice fog rolls in.

 Noisy people were playing country music again this morning.(Note the alarm clock says 4:33am!)I wish I could say the industrial earplugs and headphones worked. After being kept awake a few hours, I thought “well, might as well take a photo of myself trying to sleep…this will be funny in retrospect.” (Perhaps once I move to a quieter building?)

Here are some northern lights, from the same session as the animation seen earlier.They really fill up the sky sometimes!

 More animal tracks around town.It’s fascinating to think that animals are out there, 24 hours a day, just keeping busy.   

This is called a snow-bike. It’s like a snowmobile but slimmer, and it costs $6000.Has anyone seen these before? They are sold at the North-Mart here in Inuvik. Not sure if anyone will buy it, because people usually use their machines to haul cargo around here. 

Here’s a peaceful scene, with the sun coming through some pine trees.It’s good to be back posting again! 

 There is a new bylaw being proposed in town. It would limit car idling to 30 minutes or less.It turns out, some spectacularly wasteful people — with diesel trucks mostly — have just been letting their vehicles idle for hours at a time, right downtown.These cars were just keeping warm a couple minutes, between deliveries at the Roost.

So the other day I lent my camera around the Youth Centre hoping to generate some content for the Bomber Pages.Instead, the kids took photos of themselves vandalizing the centre.Great. 

Here are some northern lights, moving in the sky around 9pm. 

The pooch walks outside, while the owner slowly drives a car.

 Telephones are always ringing at The Roost restaurant, while guys like Joel, Mudie and Steve — above picture — make sure food orders arrive still hot.It’s a good place for pizza, burgers, chinese food and other late-night stuff.    

This small house has a masonic compass on the front. 

Here are the tables at the Mad Trapper bar.As you can see, everyone likes to leave a mark on the place!

Here’s a photo by Kendra Haines.

“It’s a sliver of sun coming back to Arctic Bay … and yes that is a hockey net on the ice.”

Very nice colours here!

Here’s a photo by Marc Winkler.

 ”This picture was taken from Happy Valley campground  in January, when
the sun was just starting to come back.”

Here’s a spacious scene by Chris Harbord (pictured earlier at the CBC,) who recently went snowshoeing near the airport.