A Slight Northerly Wind
Temp: -23°C
Windchill: - 36°C
Sunlight - 10.65 hours
Lorie made a trip to a place called Colville Lake yesterday. It’s a pretty unique community South of here. Colville Lake was founded on the principle that modern life was erasing the traditional ways of the Aboriginals. The elders in the community decided to set up a community that was pretty much traditional. So about 70 or 80 people left Fort Good Hope and tramped their way about 150 kilometers into the bush and set up a community on the edge of Colville Lake. They have no running water and, I believe, only relatively recently allowed electricity in the community. Most of the buildings there are made from local logs and the traditional language is still spoken.
Lorie took some pretty interesting pictures of Colville Lake. I will post some of them tomorrow night. I plan to visit the community myself in the next month or so, and I will be able to give you my impressions of it then.
I have added the Windchill indicator to the header tonight. There really isn’t that much wind out there compared to what one sees on the East coast – only about 26 km/h and gusting to 37 km/h – but even that slight wind has a pretty devastating effect on the temperature when it’s this cold. That little wind makes -23 feel like -36. Basically it is immediately uncomfortable when you go outside.
That’s all for now.
Cheers!
Windchill: - 36°C
Sunlight - 10.65 hours
Lorie made a trip to a place called Colville Lake yesterday. It’s a pretty unique community South of here. Colville Lake was founded on the principle that modern life was erasing the traditional ways of the Aboriginals. The elders in the community decided to set up a community that was pretty much traditional. So about 70 or 80 people left Fort Good Hope and tramped their way about 150 kilometers into the bush and set up a community on the edge of Colville Lake. They have no running water and, I believe, only relatively recently allowed electricity in the community. Most of the buildings there are made from local logs and the traditional language is still spoken.
Lorie took some pretty interesting pictures of Colville Lake. I will post some of them tomorrow night. I plan to visit the community myself in the next month or so, and I will be able to give you my impressions of it then.
I have added the Windchill indicator to the header tonight. There really isn’t that much wind out there compared to what one sees on the East coast – only about 26 km/h and gusting to 37 km/h – but even that slight wind has a pretty devastating effect on the temperature when it’s this cold. That little wind makes -23 feel like -36. Basically it is immediately uncomfortable when you go outside.
That’s all for now.
Cheers!
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11:43 PM
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