This time of year there are many cracks in the ice that must be navigated. This was a particularily narrow bridge, not more than the width of a couple of komatiqs.
Crossing the Void
This time of year there are many cracks in the ice that must be navigated. This was a particularily narrow bridge, not more than the width of a couple of…
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Did you have any shaking due to the earthquake in the Aleutian Islands? I hope everything is good with you and your family.
Good Lord! I’d be scared stiff, travelling in places like that – but I suppose if you live in a place like Arctic Bay, you get used to it.
Hi Emma. No we didn’t feel it. But the Aleutians are pretty much halfway across the world from us. There have been minor earthquakes in some of the surrounding areas up here, but nothing we’ve ever felt.
It isn’t too bad at all Allmycke. The first time is a little disconcerting, but you get used to it pretty quick. This is fairly tame but later in the season it can get challenging. But by that time I stay hiding at home.
I’m with Allmycke on that. I’m sure you’re right about getting used to it, though, and I have a pretty good ability to trust local expertise until I have reason not to. I guess I’d just think of myself as cargo ;^)
HOLY. CRAP. That gives me the heebeejeebees. I had mini heart attacks just going out on the ice in the middle of winter! lol
Its really not that bad pete and jen. Although I well remember my first spring trip out on the ice and the trepidation I felt. It wasn’t the cracks (they were few and small) but the water on top of the ice. In spots where the ice had frozen up as blocks of ice coalesced into the ice, it looked for all the world like you were traveling across floating blocks of ice. It took a while for my mind to accept that water on top of the ice didn’t mean that the ice was weak.