Lynette and Lester Head North

- Again

Only this time it’s waaay north (north of 60) but still on the Ungava peninsula of Nunavik

We’ll be flying out of Montreal early July 6 to Kuujjuaq, then Kangiqsujuaq, then Parc Pingualuit, exploring the moonscape around Pingualuit (formerly Chubb) Crater for 3 days, then paddling south for 340km down the Vachon river to the Payne-Arnaud River into Kangirsuk, where we will fly out on August 2nd back to Montreal via Kuujjuaq again. The Vachon will be one of the shortest but steepest descents we have taken to the sea & promises to be a challenge all the way! The Vachon Trip website link below has a bit more information.

This year we will be joined by two trip companions - two experienced guys, Curt & Wes, who we've met before & who seem terrific, strong, and who will be contributing a Sat phone & a gun to our safety net. We'll be "SPOTting" same as last year so anyone can follow our progress online.

To follow our SPOT transmissions, the trip links are:

• http://sites.google.com/site/landltrips/Trips/vachon-river-2010 Our Vachon trip website with Intro, Map link & Sponsors already uploaded.

• http://www.acrylart.ca/maps/vachon2010.htm Trip Progress Map (the red dot is 'Chubb' crater - you can zoom in). This site will be manually updated by our support team from our SPOT messages.

• http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0dfd6Gt3cvmB7oMte3btBhkKOMIYGV8e7 This SPOT Site is auto-updated daily so you can check it instead, (if our manual updaters are delinquent). If the SPOTS stop appearing on this site, it may mean that our SPOT is not functioning or that we've had to summon Help or 911, in which case the messages are redirected to the Park authorities or SAR.  (If you look now, you'll see there are a few SPOTs from the OWECC youth trip Jun28-Jul1 - the SPOTS show where we put in, camped, travelled to (Lac Vert), & took out on Lac Poisson Blanc in Quebec.) ...But… this SPOT site only keeps the last 7 days of information.

Lynette & Lester (aka Laco, pr. Latzo)