North pole & maple syrup

[isawlogs]

  A friend of mine that we sawed and built a log and timber frame for last december is going to the pole next week and is breing with him some of dad's maple syrup with him ....He ownes and opperates a vacation adventure up in the artic and is heading back up next week for the summer and wants some of dads syrup to bring along .... dad had kindof a glow to him when I asked if he would suply the syrup for this trip , he never thought that his sugar would ever make it that far from his little shack 
  I asked Richard if he need any help for a few days , but seems like he had everything covered for this trip....But wants to make sure I have time to finish the timber frame when he gets bak in late august ....They have a uni mog up there and I volunteered to drive them around with it , didn't work he had that allready covered ...Well maybe next time .....
   Richard Weber and Misha Malakhov are the first to have gone to the pole and back with out any outside help
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[Tom]

Now, that's gotta be cold. :-/  .....and you fellows are complaining of a foot of snow. :D :D

That's neat gettin your syrup all the way to the top.  I'd make sure that one of the packages was a wood box with the syrup in it and enough letters to make it a time capsule.  I'd try to get him to lay it out on the ice or bury it so that somebody a million years from now might find it.  ;D   It would have my name and all kinds of stuff on it.

[rebocardo]

Make sure it does not freeze into maple syrup rock candy!

[isawlogs]

Tom
  I'll make sure your name is on one of the bottles .....anybody else want there name on the pole ?

[SwampDonkey]

isawlogs:

Tell your friend to come down here where its warmer. We have our own North Pole in Central New Brunswick. North Pole Mountain and a mountain named for each of the Reindeer and St. Nic. himself. Be nice for someone to hike up North Pole mountain and erect a flag staff.  :D



A photo in October of the North Pole Stream. Hardwood Ridge is in the background, yep that's its name. Most of the leaves have fallen by now, so not much color up there. ;)



This is an area that the do gooders came to protest logging back in 1995 after the great winds that blew the old growth softwood forest down (approx. 5000 ha - 2.47 acres/ha). I know this area well and the fir component was 90 % dead anyway. You can't even walk through the regeneration that resulted from that catastrophe (60,000 plus blasam fir seedlings per ha). A tree thinners nightmare :D :D And I know that those protestors never left logging roads, nor did they hike any of the Christmas mountains. Now how did they think they would be able to go there if it weren't for forestry operations? hmmm :-/
I looked at one of there abandoned websites that has a photo of a lake, and they had miss named it. I knew the lake well because my grandfather had the only camps on it, he built in the early 60's. When your protesting, its best to know where you are. :D :D :D :D

 I was there when they first opened that area up some 30 years ago, after the already estblished camps such as the famous Pratt and Whitney on Holmes Lake. They flew into there camps in a Beaver before the roads.  Braithwright also documented the geology in that area before roads, but he messed it up a bit. Some lakes in there have granite shorelines, while others are sand. Interesting place to see from roads and very difficult to walk off road. Don't go hiking alone because I don't wanna come lookin for ya. Its so rugged that some people have been quoted in saying " Just leave me here if I don't make it out on my own" ;)

[Weekend_Sawyer]

 I had the pleasure of installing equipment on an Island, Svalbard ,on top of a mountain in the winter at a NOAA/NASA facility. 24 hours dark. Never saw so many stars in my life. We had to evacuate because a blizzard came in. When we got off the mountain it was calm. There were 4 bars in town, The peg board in the shoe changing room was to hang your guns on. There were occasionaly Polar Bears on the island!

I saw a guy on a bicycle being pulled by a BIG dog and he had a rifle across his back. You just don't see that around here... till I got home ;)

[isawlogs]

  I've been up to James Bay ,worked there on the hydro electrique project, didn't get any farther north than that. Sure is nice up there the tree line is not to far north from that point , we where on La Grande river system , the tree line is just before the Great Whale river , even at Caniapiscau 650 Km from James Bay the trees get smaller and far between ,black spruce and popler is mostly what you will find there rocks and lichen ( caribou food ) lots  of them there seen thousands togetther 1/4 mile wide and as far as you could see great fishing to .

[SwampDonkey]

isawlogs:

I had uncles that worked in Wabush and Bay Como Quebec surveying railroads and setting up mill sites for paper mills and iron ore smelters. They said it was pretty rough country, especially in winter when the snow was as high as the tips of the young trees (6 feet). And the inside of the tent was damp and the floor was ice from perspiration. The 'ole barrel stove was hot for the few next to the fire and dang near froze out by the tent entrance. A lovely job :D