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Low Temperature
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High Temperature
8 F
Dogsled rides given in Gods Lake Narrows
204
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Lesson
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Tent Talk
Listen
to today's Audio Update!
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Daily
Dilemma
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We have been given,
brook trout, eel pout, lake trout,
caribou, and moose meat in Gods Lake Narrows.
Georgina, a local woman who works at the school,
was nice enough to smoke some of the meat
for us. However, we still have about 20 pounds
of meat left. What do you think is the best
way for us to prepare the meat that we have?
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Click Here To Learn More About Lichen!
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Saying Good-bye to our new friends
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Tomorrow morning at dawn we leave Gods Lake Narrows
and commence the third leg of our adventure--destination:
Oxford House.
We're all excited to get back to the woods, but leaving
the Narrows will also be tough. We've made some great
new friends here and it will be tough to say good-bye.
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A century ago the Gods Lake Narrows Royal Canadian
Mounted Police used dog teams to patrol the north.
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Today some of the local RCMP donned their dress
uniforms and took their first dogsled rides. Today
the mounties use cars and Snowmobiles instead of dogs!
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We've already said good-bye to our host, Hector Kemp,
who left earlier today for Cancun, or, as he said, "From
the freezer to the oven."
Hector fed us a steady supply of fish, moose, caribou,
and bannock, and left us with about 40 lbs. more to
take on the trail. To return the favor, we left him
some extra rice, oatmeal, peanut butter, parmesan cheese
and dog food. Even swap.
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| Hector is a member of the RCMP, aka the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, aka the Mounties. He and
his coworkers asked us to photograph them together with
our dog team, and to make the photo look old. Mounties
used to work with dog teams in this area before cars and
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Seven of the 204 people who received dogsled rides.
Way to go Dogs!
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Dave admires a parrot at Healey's Lodge, where
we stuffed ourselves with wonderful deserts and our
first salads since Norway House. You can't tell from
the photo, but we were told that this parrot, Joe
Joe, was brought back to life after 45 minutes of
CPR by its owner after it almost drowned in Gods Lake!
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Another friend to whom we must bid farewell is Georgina.
Georgina is a councilor at the local school and also
helped smoke some fish and make bannock. Check out the
videos next week for "How to Make Bannock With
Chef Georgina."
We would also like to thank (this sounds like an Oscar
acceptance speech) the students at the elementary school,
who were very patient and well-behaved as we gave them
rides on our sled yesterday. Side note: we had to say
no when one girl approached us after her ride and asked
if our sled dog Lichen would eat her homework. But we
applaud the creativity.
The student body today presented us with some cards
and dream catchers. They will be appreciated, and we
will certainly think back on Gods Lake Narrows fondly
as we continue on with this adventure and whatever lies
beyond.
Adam
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