Ten Days on the Ice

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Itinerary for the trip

Saturday 17th March

Heathrow flight departs 1030hrs

arrives Halifax 1420hrs

Depart Halifax 1705hrs

arrive Ottowa 1758hrs

Sunday 18th March

Ottowa flight departs 0905hrs

arrives Iqualuit 1215hrs

Monday 19th March

Iqualuit flight departs 0800hrs

arrives Qikiqtarjuaq 1015hrs

Transit to North Pang Fiord by snow machine and make camp

Tuesday 20th March

North Pang Fiord - Owl River

Walk and make camp

Wednesday 21st March

Owl River - June Valley

Walk and make camp

Thursday 22nd March

June Valley - Glacier Lake

Walk and make camp

Friday 23rd March

Glacier Lake - Summit Lake

Walk and make camp

Saturday 24th March

Summit Lake - Thor Peak

Walk and make camp

Sunday 25th March

Thor Peak - Crater Lake

Walk and make camp

Monday 26th March

Crater Lake - Overlord Cabin

Walk and make camp

Tuesday 27th March

Overlord Cabin - Pangnirtung

Walk and lay my weary head down on a real bed at Auyuittuq Lodge

(Wednesday 28th March

Spare bad weather day, for any extra travel needed through delays.

Or alternatively another night at Auyuittuq Lodge)

Thursday 29th March

Flight departs Pangnirtung 1855hrs

arrives Iqualuit 1955hrs

Friday 30th March

Flight departs Iqualuit 1345hrs

arrives Ottowa 1650hrs

Saturday 31st March

Flight departs Ottowa 1830hrs

transit overnight

Sunday 1st April

Flight arrives Heathrow 0625hrs

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Last week a friend of mine asked me to take part in a 10 day trek for charity across the icy wastes of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic.
"It will be fun", she said, "It will be minus 25 degrees, you have to dig your own hole out of the ice if you need the loo and there might be polar bears, but it's a chance of a lifetime. Really."
"Yes yes," I said. "Sounds like a blast. I will certainly give it every consideration. Bye." Some people are absolutely barking mad, I thought as I hung up the phone.
But then somehow, after a few days thought, I agreed to take part. I had become the 12th and last person to sign up to the trek in aid of Mitchemp Trust, a children's charity. And I think I may have lost my mind.
Let me be quite clear about this. I am not some sort of fitness freak or adrenaline junkie. I am a 29-year-old financial journalist who has spent several years being taken out for lunch to nice restaurants by PRs. I don't do extreme sports, I do corporate hospitality.
My friends describe me as "well built" and say things like "well you don't look that heavy", while my father, who has never felt the need to protect my ego, calls me "fat".
I have a number of unhealthy vices and I have no real desire to give any of them up.
So why did I agree to go on this lunatic escapade? Well, as soon as i work that out out I will let you know. It's obviously for a very good cause and the chance to visit somewhere as unspoilt as Baffin Island doesn't come along every other day. I think its partly to do with the fact that I need a really good reason to get fit again. But all that sounds quite flippant. Lets just call it a big challenge and leave the psychology bollocks for another day.
This blog is a diary of what happens now. Think of it as Bridget Jones crossed with Sir Ernest Shackleton.
I have a little over six months to get fit enough to walk 140 miles over 10 days in one of the coldest and least hospitable places on the planet. A place so brutally frigid that skin suffers the first signs of frostbite after just a few minutes of exposure to the open air.
Wish me luck.

Ten Days on the Ice

Saturday, March 17, 2007

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