Hurry up and wait...

[jay]

Waiting in Resolute for the weather, again, before we can make our final hop to Devon Island. Conditions have worsened, in that the high we had yesterday is weakening and we're getting overcast and drizzle from the NE.

In California, I hardly notice weather forecasts... here, they're vitally important. Three years of work hinges in some sense on having sufficiently good weather in these two weeks. Still, last year we were stuck here for 3 days, and still managed OK.

Theoretically, we are supposed to depart after lunch around 1:30-2pm, but I doubt it. Weather at HMP is further to the east and hence worse than here.

Wandering around Resolute... very quiet Sunday morning. Walked by the tiny Anglican church, where services are held only in Inuktituk (I attended, a few years ago). the Co-op store is closed, so I can't do postcards...

Comments

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

*hugs* and wishes you improved weather and a safe crossing!

Maybe you'll have time to find the Resolute geocache... ;-) Most appropriately, it's called Hurry Up and Wait!! GCK4TW

"Very easy cache to find once you actually get there. Allows all geocachers something to do when there waiting for a flight out!" Indeed...

*grins*

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(grins) title here is from the cache, actually... found it before lunch. :)

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

*grin* I ought to have clued in when your post title and the cache title were one and the same. Yay on finding it!

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

It's posted now, along with a photo. :) It was an easy find... last year, I'd forgotten to switch back to WGS84 from NAD27, so had been off by a couple of hundred meters. This year, it was easy! Plus I had a much better notion of likely hiding places ;).

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Yes... I think that may have been the first cache you ever searched for! :-)

I am still really fond of that icon, and I like the pic you posted of the TB in Resolute too. Its owner was so thrilled to hear that it was going on a NASA expedition... I didn't tell them where to, though, other than "North. Really really north!"