Getting There is Half the Fun

So how exactly does one get to Devon Island?


Well I tried to get a map from mapquest.com and it didn't work.

So here's how it really works--

July 9 early morning I take a C130 (The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built originally by Lockheed, now Lockheed Martin. Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 was originally designed as a troop, medical evacuation, and cargo transport aircraft) from Moffett Field (NASA facility in Mountain View)

The first stop is Vancouver to pick up supplies (including 1/2 the food)and spend the night

July 10 leave Vancouver and head to Yellowknife ---

At the edge of the Arctic, in the heart of the wilderness, lies a city of youth, energy, adventure and prosperity. Yellowknife is a culturally rich capital thriving with diversity, and home to about 20,000 people. Located on the shores of the beautiful Great Slave Lake, only 512 km south of the Arctic Circle, we are known for our outdoor recreation, midnight sun, aurora borealis and an unusual blend of northern culture... a City where history is found throughout a modern, bustling metropolis. 

At this time we do last minute supply purchasing (including the other 1/2 of the food) and spend the night. This is the time when you check to make sure you have your toothbrush, socks and pillow

July 11 we fly to Resolute Bay

Resolute Bay is a young community, created in 1947 as a weather station and military airfield.   In the following years, Inuit from Port Harrison, Quebec and Pond Inlet moved to Resolute creating the 200+ human population that now calls Resolute Bay home

In Resolute we say goods bye to our big plane. We separate supplies by what needs to get to the Camp first. Hopefully within a few hours we start sending supplies and people to the Island. Small aircraft will do the shuttling.  Weather conditions can stop the transport at any time---so those who go first take food for the first 7 days just in case.

17 days and counting