Yellowknife Airport NWT

Whole lotta marathoning this year — 54 YTD — which has dominated any balance to my March rewirement.  Spending the next 2 weeks settling-in with FAMILY & letting the body heal.  Age a reality.  Not bouncing back as quick.  Extraordinary #s I’ve posted in 2024 have come with sacrifice.  Hip pain/muscle injuries potentially limiting my 12-month horizon.  So... gonna get quiet, enjoy New England & [o’er the next week] blog-share one of my biggest adventures from June/July 2022.

2 years ago travelled to Baffin Bay, inside the Arctic Circle.  Main objective to complete a marathon in Canada’s Nunavut Territory.  Quest to run all 13 Canadian provinces, similar to my 50 State USA journey.  Northwest Passage Marathon is your only option to record 42K (marathon) distance in Nunavut.  Scheduled every other year (half-event in Iqaluit/territory-capital but no Full).  Running on frozen ocean, threat of polar bears, waiting for a weather window.  HUGE life experience!

All started with a Google search, email chain/WhatsApp call while the Weber family wintered in British Columbia, then placing a trip-deposit 6 months before the world pandemic.  Argh!

2020 Plan: Antarctica (North Pole) in February, Somerset Island (North Pole) in July.

2020 event cancelled, 2021 travel-restricted, 2022 my year. Denver-Calgary-Vancouver-Yellowknife. Long 20 hour day of flights, landing in NWT almost 3am. (thankfully) Luggage arrived, taxi-share with a group of fishermen.  Destination: The Explorer Hotel, Yellowknife’s only lodging.

WhatsApp chat started 6am.  Charter flight to Somerset Island leaves at 9.  Fuel stop in Resolute Bay, then 12 days at Arctic Watch camp on Cunningham Inlet.  No words, WOW!

Denver-Vancouver-Yellowknife

Resolute Bay fuel stop