Life in an Arctic Exploration Camp

Lake Ice

Bob Lake

The last three years I have been working for the same company in the Arctic as an exploration geologist. It is really hard to imagine what it is like to live in a camp if you have never been there. I know that because I was blown away myself when I got there myself the first time, landing on a frozen lake literally in the middle of nowhere. So, I'm using my blog to give you guys a little inside of my everyday life when I'm up there.

Signs and mileage to places where workers are at home :-). I think we all like camp, because it is a little bit like coming home every time, however, everyone likes going home after a full rotation.

Pond at the end of the runway at George

Cabins-those are the cabins we sleep in. Each cabin has space for four people, which can be very cramped. So if the total number of people in camp is not too high, administration tries not to put more than three people in one cabin at the same time.

Fuel Farm-we use insane amounts of diesel to run all the machinery, drills, and the camp itself

Office

George Camp-the smaller of the two camps

George-in the fog which happens quite often in the morning during summer (ice break up)

Lunch break 1

Ice break up

Our geo-office

Core Shack-this is a place I spend a lot of time in. You can see the core we get brought by helicopter twice a day. The boxes are on roller-tables which is really handy and painful if you squeeze your finger between boxes.

Helicopter longlining

Heli still wrapped up from the night

awesome clouds

Three Drill on the George Property

One of my driller friends :-)