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EastCoast315
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Lately (past 3-4 months), on most of my studyhalls and a good portion of my free time on the internet, I've been doing something strange, that just "happened". No porn, nothing weird. I'm always reading about the arctic. Northwest Territories, the Yukon, Nunavut, Greenland, Alaska, Svalbard, places like that. I'll often go on google maps and just look at satellite images of barren arctic plains, inuit villages, and small weather bases/whaling towns. Sometimes I'll browse panoramics of areas like this on Flickr, or read the weather data, or road maps.
What I'm saying is I have this unnatural obsession with all things arctic, and I don't know how to cope. I REALLY want to go there, sort of like, "to get the bug out of me", just to see what there is to see and shelve up another cool memory.
I'm seriously considering flying solo to Nuuk, the capital of greenland, and just checking out fjords, ice shelves, coast, mountains, whatever. It will be tough, I'll have to fly to iceland, and then heli hop town to town until we get to Nuuk. But it will make for one HELL of a memory.

Basically, how far north have you been, what did you think, and why should/shouldn't I do this? Kind of a dumb thread, but I figured I'd throw it out there in the open and receptive environment that NSG creates. Haha.
Jan 19 2010 7:32PM
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garrettwiz
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go for it nuggah
Jan 19 2010 7:34PM
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.jesus.
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yo dawg i heard you like powder so you should go to greenland they have hella good snow there i think
Jan 19 2010 7:36PM
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skijunkiedtm
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You only live once, go for it!
Jan 19 2010 7:38PM
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ElbridgeGerry
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You're going to be fucking miserable, at least go somewhere with trees like Alaska. I've been as far north as Resolute on a cruise thing through all those fucking barren wasteland islands.
Jan 19 2010 7:43PM
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Uncle.Badness
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Sometimes you just gotta giver', get er done.
Jan 19 2010 7:47PM
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Bepo
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I've been doing a similar thing but with space and reading all about astronomy and physics stuff. I just find it so fascinating and expansive and the physics theories so radical to what we consider normal. If I wasn't already 3 years into electrical engineering maybe I'd want to be some kind of astro physicist.

But there's nothing wrong with your obsession, its much better actually learning something than wasting time on ns or facebook. I say go for it, I certainly would love to one day be able to travel in space.
Jan 19 2010 7:48PM
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squibble
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the northest ive been is a few hours north of dawson, yukon. dawson is like 4 blocks long but a cool little town anyway, and theres a golf course close by where you can play at like 2 in the morning in the summer
Jan 19 2010 7:48PM
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EastCoast315
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wow, everyone just google "heliski greenland" right now. Its 10,000 euro a person (out of the question for me, I'd bring an AT setup and skin up myself?) but some of the terrain is ridiculous. Vertical drops of up to 6000 feet. And the season is late too. It starts in February, and in Uummannaq, it runs as late as june.
Jan 19 2010 7:58PM
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EastCoast315
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Oh, found in Kisaq, 3,100 euros for the touring package. Which is still fucking expensive. I think I read something about how Bill Gates skis here 2 weeks a year
Jan 19 2010 8:01PM
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Calb3rt
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i have lived in alaska since i was 4. my family is very outdoor oriented and we used to go on hunting/rafting trips all over the state quite fequently. its a truly amazing place and i feel extremely privileged to have experienced any of it. in the summer the sun never sets and in the winter it hardly shows its face. i have stood in the middle of 50,000 caribou and been stalked by a grizzly and even rubbed a porcupine's belly once. the wildlife is stunning. my father used the be the manager of some of the wildlife refuges and has very strong bonds with a lot of the village elders. they have a very rich history but unfortunately due to modernization they are going losing a great deal of who they are. the children are not learning the ways of the land because they move to the cities and forget the old ways. even their native dialect is going extinct. the archaeology is the most fascinating to me. my brother once found a 2,000yo spear head, this last summer my father went on expedition down one of the rivers to find artifacts. they brought back all sorts of neat things that hadnt been touched by another human for hundreds of years. we often find meat storage places made out of big flat rocks to keep the predators out and the meat good. there are fossils everywhere, over the years we have found mammoth teeth and tusks, bison heads, prehistoric wolf, bear and caribou. up north there are crustacean with little trilobites and things of that nature from when the land was forming. i love alaska so much, its one of the few untouched(for the most part) places left on earth.

go north if that is what is calling you. it doesnt have to be alaska that is just a blip of my wonderful experience. i think that everyone should travel and see the world, it really opens your eyes.
Jan 19 2010 8:33PM
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