WRITTEN ON Thursday, March 26th, 2009 BY Josh Caple AND STORED IN On The Job
Apparently my server couldn’t quite handle the extra traffic during the race, & upgrading my bandwidth turned out to be something of a minor epic! My apologies, we’re all back in business now & to ease the pain here’s a few shots from day 4…
…and from day 5 (Baker Island > Trout Rocks)…
…and from this [...]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 BY Josh Caple AND STORED IN On The Job
Phew! It’s been a few full-on days! I finally have a few minutes to download all my cards, but I don’t quite have time to ‘kick back’ so I’ll have to keep it brief-ish…
PRE-RACE DAY
AKA Tourist Day. After a quick sunrise flight out to Jennejohn Lake in the Air Tindi Twin Otter (to stock the [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, March 19th, 2009 BY Josh Caple AND STORED IN On The Job
Busy busy… picked up the rest of the media crew from the airport today, then we all went down to Slave Lake for an afternoon of kite boarding. Check the pics, more coming soon.
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, March 15th, 2009 BY Josh Caple AND STORED IN On The Job
I need to sleep so just a quick update today… went out on the skidoos with local couple Tom & Linda.
We dropped Pete & Linda about 14km out from town so that could go for a run, then Tom & myself continued on the machines out into the middle of nowhere to help setup a [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, March 15th, 2009 BY Josh Caple AND STORED IN On The Job
Spent the day out on the lake with Scott & the guys from Matrix Aviation Solutions, & a few volunteers (locals & boys from Arctic Response). Matrix’s normal gig is establishing exploration camps throughout the arctic, but today we’re building base camp for the Ultra out on Great Slave Lake. I also wandered over to [...]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, March 14th, 2009 BY Josh Caple AND STORED IN On The Job
Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure of stepping onto the tarmac at Yellowknife airport, the blowy -30 a sharp contrast to the sunny Sydney I had just left behind. With my entertaining travelling buddy & endurance racer Pete Wilson in tow, we’re all set to spend a few weeks up here sampling the arctic delights [...]
