Dru Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 I get to go to the Yukon for work Be there for the Solstice Less than 100 kms from Cirque of the Unclimbables Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtom Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 Is this your new job description? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squid Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 I get to go to the Yukon for work That's Canadian for "My boss can't stand me & he can't afford to send me all the way to Siberia." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpinfox Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 Lucky bastard. So are you gonna go? If you need an assistant; let me know. I know all about rocks and stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 6, 2005 Author Share Posted June 6, 2005 I don't know yet whether I get to schedule any climbing around the work time. hope so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 Man I miss Calvin and Hobbes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_Simpkins Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 I love the Yukon. I have many very nice memories from there. Have fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelawgoddess Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 that looks amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken4ord Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Less than 100 kms from Cirque of the Unclimbables That is quite an approach to the climbing still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineK Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Less than 100 kms from Cirque of the Unclimbables That is quite an approach to the climbing still. One point that Dru hasn't brought up is that coming from the Yukon you'd have to do a month of brushwacking to get to the cirque. Not that it can't be done, but only a handfull of people have walked to the cirque. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 7, 2005 Author Share Posted June 7, 2005 But we have a helicopter at our disposal so The chances I will actually get to climb in the Cirque are slim to none, though. The peaks around the area we are going to be working in are mostly unclimbed but also mostly low piles of rubble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineK Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Yeah everything else I saw from the plane looked boring. There is the Vampire(?) range north of the cirque. Unfortunalely helicopters cost too much to just joyride wherever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dechristo Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Ain't the Yukon Ho Union gonna pitch-a-fit over a BC Ho comin' in and snappin' up their biz? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 7, 2005 Author Share Posted June 7, 2005 no, cuz I put the ho in homey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dechristo Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 The capitol is White Ho... Seems they need some "sisters" from da hood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glacier Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 The capitol is White Ho... Seems they need some "sisters" from da hood. Like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 7, 2005 Author Share Posted June 7, 2005 They just rescheduled my first field dates to late July from late June No more 24 hr. sunlight solstice party Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dechristo Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 mmm...mmm...m... da tings dat girl do wit a microphone... she gwine ta hert herself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordop Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 If Druupy goes north who will put up all the new classic dirt and choss routes in SWBC this summer? Who will compile all the grade 0.5 routres for the AAJ? Anarchy unleashed upon the masses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double_E Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 farthest north I've ever been was car-camping on the Yukon River, near Whitehorse. never will forget how damn big that river was.... we were probably over 1000 miles upstream from the ocean and it still looked like it had the same discharge as the mouth of the Skagit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted July 1, 2005 Author Share Posted July 1, 2005 oK, i missed the solstice but I'm still going see ya in July Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dechristo Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 Have a great time. Glacier: nice bit of editting turning Norah O'Donnell into "MSNBC - The White Ho". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stemalot Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 have fun...bring back local souvenirs for all of us...not the bugs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted July 9, 2005 Author Share Posted July 9, 2005 i have over 100 bug bites on my right hand and about 75 on my left! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted July 9, 2005 Author Share Posted July 9, 2005 and the weather mostly looked like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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