After driven around the Beaufort Sea to avoid the ice, and being stuck in the McKenzie River Delta for a week – the big question at this point is “will they make it through any part of the Northwest Passage?“
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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On their facebook page one of their fan boys said no ice for hundreds of kilometres … somehow I think not.
Here’s a big chunk of their route on 10 July:
http://earthdata.nasa.gov/labs/worldview/index.html?map=-174631.970008,-3401995.400359,250584.029992,-3186443.400359&products=baselayers,MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor~overlays,arctic_graticule_3413&time=2013-07-11&switch=arctic&unsupported
Looks like several hundred kilometers before they meet the ice in the Amundsen Gulf south east of Banks’ Island.
They seem terrified of the performance of their boat in wind/waves. They don’t have time for coast hugging.
Stupid is as Stupid does?
There’s nothing like a beating of a life time:)
They are praying for some winds out of the south and west to help them get to Tuk.
When they experience the clouds of Arctic mosquitoes that will arise up out of the scrub and attack their soft, tender southern skin they will stop praying for those winds.
Reggie’s blowtorch is severely fooked http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/canada/northwest-territories/tuktoyaktuk
North and NE winds as well Stewart.!
Here is my question: if they are following (in reverse) the route Amondson took in 1906 or whatever it was, how is it a sign of climate change that they can do it now?
It took Amundsen more than one summer to make his transit, so if the rowers can do it in one, that presumably means that the sea is clearer of ice. Judging by their current progress however….
Records on this Date in Tuktoyaktuk, NT
Record Low
-1°C 1967
Record High
31°C 1961
Thurs. Overnight
Variable cloudiness
Variable cloudiness
-1°C
Feels like -5
P.O.P: 30%
Wind N 15 km/h
Wind gust –
Humidity 89%
Aiming for the record tonight?
But where is Reggie on this matter?
Reggie may have been banned.
Mainstream’s website shows the last position on Wednesday. Either the rowers are stuck on their island, or the website needs updating.
http://mainstreamlastfirst.com/
They are hunkering down behind a pingo, waiting for conditions to improve. I don’t see how they expect to finish their journey if they have to stop rowing every time the wind picks up.
http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Crew+battles+Arctic+gale+they+trudge+ahead+shadow+doomed/8642081/story.html
The crew are on the move again and are looking for success:)
They rowed a bit closer to shore a couple of hours ago, probably to get out of the wind.
Facebook page shows the boat moored to a piling and them squatting at a burning driftwood log on the beach.
Caption reads; “Still storming! Gale force winds here on the Yukon Coast. Time for a fire!” Smoke, however is not streaming away, water is only rippling and they are not in the Yukon but in Northwest Territories. Can they be lost already?
Har har har!!!! Best comment evah!!! 😉 Yukon count on it!!!
Let’s see averaged 0 kmpd for past couple of days, so 1500 km/0 kmpd is indeterminate.
There’s a new post up on the mainstream website. Apparently they’re ‘chilling‘ waiting for the winds to die down. 🙂