I have been watching the weather up there...and it seems to me it was on average PLUS 10c about 2 weeks ago..now I see temps in the MINUS teens!!! :beerchug:

I live in Kugluktuk, NU Canada. We just got our firt snowfall today. It is only -2c out right now so we will see if the snow stays.

Not in Nunavut, but in Kuujjuaq, northern Quebec. Forecasting snow tonight. Snowed a bit last week, but melted instantly.

Yup kimo, I have been watching your forecasts too!!!

Just came from a little drive, no snow yet..... 40% chance of flurries tomorrow

In Iqaluit it snowed for a bit this morning but not for long. It seems to be getting colder by the week so winter is just around the corner. :banana: I heard from a friend there is already snow further up north around Arctic Bay/Nanisivik area but do not know exactly since i just heard it from a friend. Across the bay there is some snow on the hills already though. :div20:

Yup, getting there. Almost ptarmigan huntin time :beerchug:

Hey p6r0o0x, how are things in the capitol? I lived in Iqaluit about a year and a half ago. I was riding a Blue RMK 700. My riding buddies were Paul Riendo (Red F7) and Huvvavou (Spelling)(Orange F7 Sno Pro). I'm not sure we know each other but great to see someone from there on this site.

ok guys? What keeps you up there? What kind of work is there? What other activities do you do?

Forgive my questions!! It's just very fascinating that before the internet what means would you have had to connect to the rest of the world? Satellite TV?

Lived here all my life, quiet simple life. Working in IT as a system admin.

On the question of what we have and why we stay in the north, Well we have all of the amenities that southerners do. And what keeps us in the north, one word, FREEDOM! The ability to go anywhere you wish and do pretty much anything. Being able to pack up your sled (Wooden sled towed behind your snowmobile) with gear and going out hunting or fishing. Being able to hop on your sled from your house and drive around town. Family is a big part of it and the tradition is good to have, when you move down south alot of that is lost.

may I ask what kind of job you would have to afford gas and a sled?? How much is gas up there?!!

it's 1.69$ a litre here. My job gives me "cost of living differential" every pay check. It's a little extra money to compensate some of the price differences. it helps. but not everyone gets that.

Everything is fine in the capital and getting colder so we know winter is around the corner. I expect to have snow by halloween like every year. Our lake froze for a bit and than it rained now it is warmer than last week but getting colder though. :celebrating: I know who Paul Riendeau is and Qavavou when he had his F7 but now he has a IQ 440.



We basically got everything up here just no roads out of town you can only come into town through the air.




There are all kinds of job in Iqaluit but myself I work for the Government of Nunavut. The salary up here are crazy especially with the GN some salary range from $50000 minimum but the cost of living is crazy.
The gas isnt too bad up here too sometimes it is $1.09/litre up to $1.20/litre it is subsidized by the GN so the prices for gas is one of the lowest that I know of in Canada.

We got some snow last week but gone now. My girls were rinding there F120 for a couple days until it started raining. Other things... polar bears are starting to get into town now, that time of the year.

Good day everyone, I am originally from Cambridge bay, Nunavut. I now live in the little town of Ulukhaktok, NWT, formerly known as Holman. I believe I am the furthest north now on this site, N70 45' 46' W117 48' 22'. We have really lotsa snow here. Will be flying to Kugluktuk in April with my sled to race at their Annual Nattiq Frolics, they have everything from Snow Drags, to Team Relay, to Hillclimb, gully Run, Snocross, Cross-Country. Then I will be driving my sled with a couple of buddies from Kugluktuk to Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, then enter the races there. There they have more races than Kugluktuk. In Cambridge they have Ice drags, Snow Drags, Ice Oval, Mexican Oval, Team Relay, Snocross, Cross-Country, River Run...I sure can't wait...Cambridge Bay's one is called Omingmak Frolics....

yea, we're expecting a x-country race season here... should have some fun here. Mainly to get ready for the region-wide racing. I haven't experience the "western" Nunavut racing but the Kivalliq racing is more competitive than Baffin racing sicnce the Baffin guys seem to have less fortune to qualify for our events. Just my thoughts not to offend the guys from Baffin, my apologies in adavance for PrOX6o0 and the other guys. Sorry.

yea i thought about getting to cambridge for the races last yr, it doesnt seem as organized there as it is here (and its not that great here)... hopefully i'll be able to afford it this yr

How do you know about how organized the races are in Cam-Bay? I don't think you've been there before. I suggest you keep your opinions to yourself unless you have been to Cambridge Bay's races......

I had been sent a list of all the races with the prize money info and it just didnt seem too good, lotsa money to be made but you'd have to have 3 different sleds to compete in all classes.

Well that's what we do. We race two different sleds, one fan-cooled, for the fan-cooled class, and one liquid-cooled sled for the open class. Don't go and say they're not organized just because there's not much prize money! And let me tell you, It's not about the money! It's about winning! It's about Bragging right's, who's the fastest in this, who's the fastest in that......that's why we race, not about the money.......well I race to win, not for the money....

wasnt meant as an offence man... its just really different than over here, u know? what im used to...

Hey all, I thought I would stop in and say hi. I'm up in Resolute Bay, and it's too damn cold to ride this week.
Cheers
Harv

Good to see more guys here from Nunavut. Welcome Harv, we are lucky to have a couple days of rather warm temperatures for the past couple days. I might be heading up to Resolute next month for work, was just in Arctic Bay a couple weeks ago. Very different not used to having darkness almost all day, but cool to experience that.

Hey cool, I work out of here, but run a shop in Arctic bay also. What is it you do?
Cheers
Harv

Hey guys, what's going on? I am originally from Arctic Bay but live here in Iqaluit. Not too much snow in this part of our north but hopefully soon enough. Can't wait to ride and take jumps. Take care fellow riders

Hey welcome eskimo rider, a newbie here myself.
Cheers
Harv

I'm a regional planner, one project we do is to interview inuit about their land use. We're to go to all communities in Nunavut over the next 3 years.

Sounds like an interesting job you have there buddy.
Today is the 28th of december and our temp has dropped down to minus 68 degrees. How's that for too cold to ride and snow right now. Take it easy guys and keep in touch.

I am with 87gtNOS...what do you guys do up there? I am from the most southerly point (well a few km's away) in the whole Country....talk about extreme opposites!

Cha.

HarvesterGSX is the northern-most HSC member so far among Canadians, unless there is someone is here from Grise Fiord.

Greeting from Iqaluit!!

Welcome to HardCoreSledder Baffinsummit! :beerchug:

Wow, some pretty far north folks!!

Man it is good to see so many from Nunavut and the north. I can't wait till Natiaq Frolics start. I am still trying to convince my wife to let me get a race sled, but bills come before toys so I might have to wait till next year to race.

Hi Everyone,

I was watching a documentary on the Discovery Channel the other day and they were talking about your territory. It is very interesting how the internet has made it easy to talk with people that I wouldnt be able to talk with otherwise. I would like to know more about the snowmobiling in your area, do you have regular marked trails? are there any clubs with websites? do you get any visitors from out of your area that come to snowmobile?. I live in noth central part of Wisconsin USA, I would like to hear from some of you, maybe we could compare our areas.

Thanks,

Doo-sledder

Hey all! Droppin a line from up here in Resolute Bay as well. Harvester and I ride together and I'm fairly new to the site, but i guess with that said i would technically be the most northerly member on the site....by about 500'. LMFAO!

Doo-sledder,

As for your questions regarding sled clubs and trails etc. There isn't a single marked trail or club around this area. We can wake up in the morning, start our machines and go for a quick ride before we head into work. Our riding "season" is anywhere from 7-9.5 months out of the year my friend. Needless to say we do have our trials and tribulations as well. The community has been cloaked in total darkness as of the second week of November '06 and we will not see a spec of the sun itself until the middle of February '07. Pray for sun!!!

Riding conditions here, vary from week to week it seems. We could have mild weather for a couple of days and the snow will soften up completely making the riding pleasure endless, quite literally. Other weeks, like this passed, can prove to be unbarable with wind chills hitting -55 celsius and turning any attempt of riding into a regretful attempt of pure stupidity.

There is much to see up here in the Arctic though, and if you're interested in a taste of the serene and beautiful...this is the place to be.

Cheers,
Mael

Well, Maelstrom and I just got in from a quick ride along the bay. The wind was up, and it was chilly at times. You guys gotta see this dude launch his sno pro off a hard packed drift. The man is insanely talented on that machine. He makes it all look so easy.

I have to agree with him on the miles of endless beauty here most times of the year. Where else could you stop on the way home from work, shoot yourself a couple ptarmigan, or stop on the side of the road and cast a rod into one of the lakes, or even just turn off the road and drive 4 or 5 miles across the tundra to a natural spring or river for a BBQ.

I love it here, it reminds you that there's more to life than the little annoying day to day things that people get all worked up over.
Ther....that's my bull$hit rant for the day..............now, on to the snowmobiles!

Wow,

Sounds like you have fresh snow a lot of the time you ride. Do you ride from town to town or do you mainly stay local? For us, the majority of riding is on groomed trail. On the weekend the traffic can be pretty heavy, If it is a race weekend we can have several thousand sleds on the trail. But If you can ride during the week, there is almost nobody here, which is nice. The local clubs groom every other day during the week and then every day on the weekend because of the traffic. Every club has a groomer or two and some of the bigger clubs have as many as five groomers, the clubs maintain anywhere from 200 to 500 or more miles of trail each. Do you guys have designated areas that you cant ride? for us, we have to pretty much stay on the marked trail because so many private land owners let us cross their property. What is tourism like in your area? we are mainly a tourist industry. Do people come to your area just to snowmobile? Sorry if I ask too many questions. Here are a couple of pictures of the trails in my area. Thanks

Doo-sledder

One more

We don't have designated trails up here. I can leave my front door, and pick any direction and go for hundreds of miles if i want to.
The main tourism here are the folks trying to walk to the north pole. A lot of "crazies" use Resolute as their base, while they attempt the north pole trek out of Ward hunt Island. Summer time we get roughly 5 or 6 cruise ships passing through. The ships do their turnaroumd here because we're the farthest north a commercial jet can fly. 100 or so passengers get shuttled off of the ship and get on the plane while another 100 or so people get off the plane and onto the ship for their voyage back down along the straight.
The sledding's only truly good here in the spring, when the snow starts to soften up. Most of the winter, the snow gets so hard packed by the wind, that it's almost like concrete.

Harv,

Our season here lasts from about December to March depending on the snow. This year has been pretty low for snowfall, we got about 3-4 inches sunday night but it was really fluffy, so, if you werent the first couple of sleds down the trail it wasnt very good riding. We had a good base down early in the year but then we got rain and that just ruined everything. After the rain, it got cold and then everything was rock hard. We used to have really good winters over here but the last few have been hit or miss. The 04-05 season was pretty good, i got about 1800 miles on but this year is pretty thin, I only have 175 miles to date. I wouldnt mind some pictures of your scenery, the bigger the file the better, that way I can print out a photo. You could email them directly if you want, wildlife, landscape or anything like would be cool and some sort of information on where the pic was taken would be great.

Thanks,

DS

No prob mate, I'll see if I can find some good ones for ya.
Harv

I used to work in Nunavut for 6 years until the mine i worked at closed, it was a great experience. i was fresh out of school for mining engineering and landed the job working in a mine there. what i made in 6 years there would have taken me 10 years in Ontario. i originally went there for the cash but the people and the great time kept me there. also met lots of great people in Arctic Bay, resolute, iqaluit.

after leaving there i went to work for another mining comapny in Nuavik...not so much fun there...most of the Quebec people i worked with were rude, did not like the fact i was from Ontario and i was stealing their job..so i finally left my arctic days behind and came to work in sudbury.

I lived in Nunavut back in '02 for a year, mostly in Iqauit, but did some travelling including Resolute.
Here are some pics:

Resolute in March and in summer.

Also for the folks in Iqaluit. Is this character still there?

Also for the folks in Iqaluit. Is this character still there?
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LOL yes he still here. I think he is also in you tube also. Just type in Nunavut.

Polar man!!! hahaha, i met him back when he was still Polar Boy. haha,

lmao, I see that guy all the time. I actually just booked some travel to Iqaluit this morning. Gonna be there for a week on a course. Anyone wanna loan me their snowmobile, hehehe.

Hello fellow nunavutmiutaks!! I've been on this site for a while and finally stopped by here. Been reading up on machines mostly. Hope everyone has a good riding season and hunting season. Races here are getting closer. Wish it wasn't only the one weekend. Oh well, I think finally this year I'll be able to make it dfriving to Cam-Bay for theres too. all!!!

Edit- Just moved back here over a year ago from Holman NWT after living there for about 15 years than moved back here. So I ain't a pure nunavutmiutak, I'm actually a Nunavialuit!! (half nunavut/half inuvialuit) LOL
Oh, and this sign is totally wrong . Its a beautiful country up here in the summer. Good fishing, hunting, scenery. Oh and riding too as this pic states it.

Hey all, Glad to hear there are others up here too. The good snow keeps on blowing away everytime we get it.