N75.09.151 W96.49.598
Friday 8th April
Polar bear close up !
It has been a long day – we have done 14 miles & have 14 to go to check point 1, which we should arrive at tomorrow late afternoon / early evening.
We had great excitement – around lunch time we saw our first polar bear! It was too far away to get a picture. We also saw lots of foot prints of female & young, so we didn’t hang around!
We over took the Internationals around two, at Polar Bear sighting, but following in the normal pattern, they over took us, once we set up camp tonight about 7.00pm. It will be interesting to see who gets into check point first tomorrow!
See the full post for Gallery photos of the Checkpoint set up
Checkpoint 1 Set up
A few photos of the chaps setting up Checkpoint 1
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- The Support Team
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- Checkpoint 1
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- Support Team flying in
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- Unloading for Checkpoint 1
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- Unloading for Checkpoint 1
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4 Responses
Comment by Dawn Waldron
9 April, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Well done Jo-Jo. Don’t worry, if you see a polar bear they’ll be much more frightened of you. Sleep well. Xx
Comment by Lindy Hacker
9 April, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Hi Jojo, here with Mimi keeping up with your progress and both very proud!!! Mum and Dad are here for the night, Mum and I went for a fab drive this afternoon. We’re having our summer now shame you’re missing it, temperatures of 22 degrees!!!! will catch up with your progress tomorrow. Lots of love, LIndy and Mimi xxxx 🙂
Comment by Jo
9 April, 2011 at 11:26 pm
22 degrees here today. That is plus 22! Blue skies, again, and sun all day.
Tested the fire pit this evening with those dodgy neighbours wot provide you with your music. Big success. Huge.
BBQ would have been fine apart from I forget to clarify that we were providing the icecream and meat, they were providing the green and healthy bits. Al worked out in the end. Missing your guiding hand…
Couple of questions,
a) How long are you walking for each day?
b) Is it colder at “night” than during the day?
Children going in to care next week but nothing to worry about (Lindy’s).
Glad to see that you appear to be getting some rhythm going, to have dried some kit out and to be keeping your sense of humour going. Go Slugs, go!
Love, YB
Comment by David
10 April, 2011 at 7:56 am
Feeling for you with the cold and lack of sleep but look on the bright side , as you go north your spelling is getting better! X