jay | Waiting on weather

I'm still in Resolute... it's snowing this morning. And there are no Twin Otter charters available until after dinnertime, if then, so I've become the local coordination guy for Pascal. There's an aircraft from Ottawa due in in 2 hours... but the ILS is inoperative, and ceilings are only 200 feet, so they may hold it in Iqualuit. Six more people arriving for Devon Island, but without charters available through Polar Shelf, they'll just join me in waiting. And the hotel has only eight rooms... we'll all double-up, plus a couple of them will probably sleep in a converted cargo container ("Annex 2") next door. Still, it's heated, with real toilets...

I went by the tiny local Anglican church this morning (but the service was in Iniktuit), then walked around Resolute and ran into Andy, who was on Devon Island with us 3 years ago doing a story for Men's Journal... he's doing a piece this time on High Arctic politics and the underlying economy.