> On Dec 21, 1979, the winter solstice, a group of us snowmobiled 55
> miles northwest from Fort Good Hope up the Mackenzie River to get 39
> miles due north or a little over half a degree of latitude for a
> midnight shore supper right on top of the arctic circle (give or take
> a few hundred feet). At the arctic circle there is exactly one day
> day of 24 hour sun and one day of 24 hour night. We had bacon,
> beans, bannock, champagne and rusty nails.

If you don't mind my asking, what part of Canada are you in?  When it
starts to get hot down here in the states, I usually dream of visiting the
Artic Circle or the Ocean... don't like the heat.  Closest I have come was
in 2015 when I visited the UP of Michigan... looked across at Canada from
the Whitefish Point lighthouse, the Iroquois Point lighthouse, and Sault
Sainte Marie, and made it as far North as the Copper Harbor lighthouse in MI.
Lake Superior is too wide to see Canada from there.  :)

I have often got out Canadian atlases, or used google maps, to plot
potential drives as far North as one can... maybe catch a train to Moosonee
or Churchill... or to drive all the way into Alaska.  Would love to see the
Artic Ocean from Point Barrow one day.

When it is Winter here, I don't spend hear as much time in fantasy about a
cold trip up North.  :)

Mike

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