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1000 Miles Through the Arctic - High Adventure in the Far North - a Snowmobile Expedition Documentary
It was about 2011 when my brother, ‪@TheRealTedBaird‬ and I got the green light from Field & Stream magazine to do this trip. We hadn't had much experience traveling by snowmobile before this and we were concerned for good reason. We traveled through some extremely remote areas, relying on our machines to get us from the Mackenzie River to the small Inuit hamlet of Ulukhaktok in the western Arctic Archipelago. We hunted Ptarmigan, caught Lake Trout, and ate Caribou, we spent time on the land with the Inuit and cut wood on Great Bear Lake near the Dene community of Deline. We were far up north in true wilderness and away from the road system in far-flung northern Canada. It was an amazing experience.
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Here's a link to another documentary I produced in the same manner. This one is about a 33-Day canoe expedition across Northern Quebec and Labrador: • 33-Day Hard Core Survi...
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:28 Inspired by an Inuk Landsman on an Arctic Canoe Expedition
6:37 Cold Calling Field & Stream Magazine in New York, New York
8:24 Packing & Preparing for the Expedition
10:20 Flying to Norman Wells Northwest Territories and Driving the Ice Road
15:18 In Tulita, NWT & Riding to Great Bear Lake & Spending time in Deline
26:55 Driving out onto Great Bear Lake & RIgging our Toboggans with Rope
28:24 Getting Stuck & First Camp on Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories
34:35 Crossing Pressure Ridges on Great Bear Lake.
41:45 Ice Fishing for Lake Trout & Wildlife Sighting of Caribou
48:40 Losing Something at Night and Having to Turn Back
50:59 Camping in Canvas Ten, Taking Fuel Inventory and Breaking Camp
53:55 Sketchy Weather & Finding Remote Cabins at Plummer's Lodge
56:46 Making Bannoc in an Off-Grid Cabin in the North
1:00:41 Thin Ice Danger Crossing a Massive Pressure Ridge as Darkness Closes in
1:06:31 Hornby Bay, Ice Fishing & Bumping Into a Group of Inuit on the Land
1:11:50 Fishing Snowmobile & Crossing the Arctic Circle & Tree Line
1:15:52 White-Out & Darkness in the Barren Grounds & Wolverene Tracks
1:17:59 Camped on Dysmal Lakes - Drilling Through 7' of Ice! Fixing Snowmobile & Riding to Kugluktuk, Nunavut
1:23:11 Fixing Toboggans for 18 Hours Straight in Kugluktuk
1:32:00 Riding onto the Northwest Passage & Finding an Old Cold War Base
1:36:30 Riding to Cabins at Rymer Point, Ptarmigan Hunt
1:38:30 Jim & Ted Get Separated & Can't Find Eachother
1:40:18 Arriving at Rymer Point Cabin & Greeted by Muskox
1:43:47 Riding Through the Night - Almost Dying
1:45:47 Crossing Prince Albert Sound as the Sun Rises - 45 Degrees
1:48:04 Riding Through Safety Channel - Final Push to Ulukhaktok
1:49:14 Arriving at Ulukhaktok After Riding for 26-Hours Straight