<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=27176" target="_blank">Missing family turns up safe after surviving six nights in igloo</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/14-misc-cdn" target="_blank">Misc CDN</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=Hyack" target="_blank">Hyack</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2007-11-16 09:34:46
<strong>Canadian</strong>

   

Definitely amazing!

   

Thats nothing spectacular or out of the norm,they do it every year while coming from Gjoe Haven to Baker(5 day trip)

   

I wish I could live in an igloo sometimes, or at least for a holiday. Do they have igloo vacations?

   

yup

http://www.icehotel.com/

   

Wow. Thanks for the link. I have a friend in Sweden, maybe another reason to go there

   

yeah with all the hot chicks there the ice hotel is the reason i'd be visiting Sweden

   

You pay the 3 grand from winnipeg to Baker lake Nunavut and I'll get you a spot in an "iglu" for free.

   

To the Innuit living in the Arctic a six day camp out on the tundra is just another trip to the store.When they started showing up this february from places like Hall beach and Gjoe Haven I was stunned,sometimes they wanted to overnight or borrow a spark plug and continue on in the morning,sometimes they left sleds hundreds of miles behind.

A day trip to them is like a trip to the 7/11 to us southerners.

I like the way the writer just had to get global warming,melting arctic ice and increased numbers of polar bears into the story. No agenda there.

   

By and large Inuit are never lost or late because they don't have to be anywhere special.

I recall a visit to Port Burwell, Labrador, going fishing with some. It got foggy but they did care....they said they knew their way home.....they thought. When we started back they set a course due east....I had a compass they didn't. Had the hardest time getting them to go west. Our next stop would have been Ireland or Scotland.

We got back without running out of fuel. They didn't care, the consequences of nearly getting lost at sea didn't mean squat.

Actually I deduce this is an instinctive survival skill----no panic....

They seem to be good boat handlers---but their navigation sucks.

   

Ha Ha Ha! How true,time means nothing to them.

We had a few wander into camp this spring after walking for about 9 days when their guide got lost.This was about 1000 kliks of traveling so no loss of face for the guide,it all looks the same after a few hundred miles.They actually went back and tried to find their broke down sled,even our choppers couldnt find it.

One of the reasons for this attitude I find is because if they walk long enough they will come across a village or hunter somewhere along the line.Food and shelter is just part of the travelling,their used to it and expect it as most trips arent done in a day here.

Hope they didnt use this search plane from Hall beach.
hall beach

   

I didn't expect it to start----blow up maybe.

That idiot with the priming pump is either nuts or unlicensed.

   

That's what lots of pilots say yet he's still flying and has mega hours and experience so maybe he knows something most others dont. Maybe it's the cold temps that make it less dangerous then usuall.

   

Used to do battle with the mills on dollar-nineteens all the time. Once you figgered them out, they were not so bad. Cold start with a starter cartridge was always interesting but most of the time flooding was still a problem. They always dealt with the mosquito problem when they did light.....smoke,,,,

My edge was the WW2 Sherman used a Continental radial and the old tank vets would tell tales of backfires, fires etc.