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Album: More miscChanged: 04/02/05
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Flying Canadian North is expensive, but the food's great. Unfortunately not all menu items can be translated into Dogrib. Viewed: 274 times.
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Yellowknife is a thriving multicultural metropolis. It has Vietnamese noodles and Somali taxi drivers, but no Indian food yet. Viewed: 267 times.
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You can get anything you need in Yellowknife, including a tattoo. If they feel like being open. (The internet cafe owner didn't.) Viewed: 290 times.
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If fishing isn't hydro-therapeutic enough, more modern services are available. Viewed: 279 times.
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Contemporary performance art? No, the firemen were out on the main street for a memorial - two of their colleagues died just before the Carnival. Viewed: 256 times.
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The fish at Bulluck's Bistro is tasty, but the walls are covered in tasteless stuff like this.
Last comment 03/30/05.Viewed: 289 times.
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Some people keep old mining equipment in their yards. Viewed: 258 times.
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Stuffed animals appeared everywhere, from the polar bear at the airport to the driver of this truck, late of the Spirit mine. Viewed: 245 times.
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Old cabins kept for "local colour" on the famed Ragged Ass Road, where people live in much nicer chalet-style houses. Viewed: 234 times.
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Not as seen on Home & Garden TV. Viewed: 261 times.
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The gas station next to Walmart has a lane just for snowmobiles. Note the cool racing outfits! (The only thing worth locking up in YK is your snowmobile.) Viewed: 253 times.
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We walked along a moonlit path from the Old Town; the ice lanterns led us out onto the lake to this, the Snow King's castle. The windows are 4-inch thick blocks of clear ice. The Friday night "ball" (old-time fiddle dance) was delayed due to a broken heater. Viewed: 256 times.
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On the roads and sidewalks, the snow is plowed smooth. Here's a pile of stratified snow, removed recently. Viewed: 254 times.
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The Caribou Carnival is held on the ice of Frame Lake. It's 6 feet deep but still a little nerve-wracking to walk on. Viewed: 243 times.
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Who needs a sign board when you have a snowbank? Viewed: 288 times.
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Caribou painted by schoolchildren were cuter than the corporate moose in Toronto. Viewed: 241 times.
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Two contestants head-butt each other until one is pushed outside the circle. (Observe the "ugly truck" at left.) Viewed: 253 times.
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Dene men play a ritualized guessing-game (which hand contains an object) to a rapid drumbeat. Viewed: 251 times.
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This gentleman has been bouncing on a walrus skin for decades. Twenty people cooperate for this "blanket toss". Viewed: 269 times.
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A Company of Fools came from Ottawa to present "Shakespeare's Interactive Circus", including a rap version of Romeo & Juliet, sponsored by the Carnival. Viewed: 257 times.
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Snow sculpture in progress. Viewed: 260 times.
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The finished work, illustrating transformation. Viewed: 254 times.
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The Caribou Queen judging the Great Northern Ugly Truck & Dog Contest, according to criteria such as "worst dressed driver", "duct tape/fasteners", "clouds of smoke when started (bonus points if blue, double points if black, triple points if continuous". "Subtract points for obvious signs of spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend". Viewed: 281 times.
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I should have asked what these tanks-for-Japanese-tourists are called. They were clearly competing in the "northernness" category. Viewed: 246 times.
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Somebody tried too hard on this truck. I was more impressed by the vehicle offering "Blowtorch Cooking Lessons", hauled by a snowmobile with ripped upholstery and decorative duct-tape. There really was a surly teenage boy trying to boil something in a tin kettle, using a blowtorch. Viewed: 255 times.
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The Canadian Championship Dog Derby was held during the Carnival. Look at 'em go! Viewed: 129 times.
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Val rented a car (note authentic license plate, not bought in souvenir shop) to drive us out to Cameron Falls at a Territorial Park. Viewed: 269 times.
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Trees around Yellowknife grow very slowly and spindly. On this nearly dead tree, you can see that the pinecones grow close to the trunk, unlike southern conifers. Viewed: 252 times.
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There were lots of these little seedpods (name?) Viewed: 219 times.
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Lichen and moss grew on some trees. Viewed: 238 times.
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Birch and a few other deciduous trees are common in & around YK, which isn't really that far north (it's south of the tree line and the Arctic Circle, and you only have to be half-crazy to live there.) Viewed: 244 times.
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We hiked up, and slid down, many little hills on a snowy 3km trail to see this. Luckily it was a warm sunny day (maybe even above 0 Celsius). Viewed: 265 times.
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We got to see Cameron Falls rushing out from under the snow, just in time - I had to rush back to the airport! Viewed: 110 times.
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Here is the river breaking up, just below the falls. Viewed: 243 times.
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In the parking lot, Kiki was introduced to Ceasar the husky. Kiki was really into dogs and hockey, so I think she had even more fun in Yellowknife than I did. Viewed: 297 times.
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