Christopher Lucas Gurbin
From approximately Dec 1/2012 to mid- may year 2013, I was very fortunate to have the unique experience of being a winter caretaker for Ennedai Lake Lodge, Nunavut territory, Kivaliq region. For about five months I had a wood burning stove on the edge of Canada's northern tree line to keep from freezing to death. I was supplied with proper gear to live through temperatures ranging from +15 C to a low of - 55 C, very cold! I was provisioned both at the camp and also upon being flown in. I planned to ice fish but ten feet of ice is tough to get through when a back injury prevents ‘quick- pull’ actions needed to start a power auger and also a snowmobile. I called HQ in Resolute Bay, or in Iqaluit, twice a week sometimes only getting through once (the local term is being 'weathered out'). I saw foxes, singular wolverines (purposeful tanks that can take out a grizzly), lots of birds, northern lights, sundogs, moondogs, green snow, blue snow, and many northern experiences unfathomable to southern warmer eyes. It is often hard to recall those eyes upon returning south, such is the absolute wonder I have witnessed in the north. I melted snow near the wood stove I had moved over a bit on its' firepad area so I could sleep next to it when -40 C hit the area with winds. I made a home for myself and could imagine the area logged and put to fields and orchards for human habitation I am familiar with. The Viking Empire also similarly is said to have expired by doing many old things in a new region, but who would ever guess that "Greenland" was named after the green northern lights? I call the Northern Lights as nls… repeated in this entire book. ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Background I've only seen northern lights (nls) mostly in Kincardine, Ontario, Canada- where I grew up. Perhaps it can be said that the lights coincided with the local large employers' 'accidental' spills from the nuclear plant. Greenpeace may not care to chronicle hazards of ind
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