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Gold/Mining/Energy : Winspear Resources
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To: marcos who wrote (4697)1/2/1998 11:40:00 PM
From: Walt  Read Replies (1) of 26850
 
Robert Service did manage to capture a feel for the place in rhyme better then anyone else I have read.
The cremation of Sam Magee often comes to mind one a particularly cold winters night.
Down to 20 below is not bad and for working can actually be quite comfortable. When it starts aproaching 30 below it starts to get painfull. The cold can really penetrate, you have to watch that you dont over exert yourself, it can burn your lungs etc. 40 below is brutal in the sense that mistakes can cost you dearly. At 40 and below our technology literally begins to break down. Plastic and rubber break like glass, metal will shatter, engines cease up. In town if it is calm at 40 below usually a cloud of frozen exaust builds up. Working outside at fourty below you are always conscious of the cold, focused on it. You are all bundled up and it feels a little like everything is happening in slow motion. At night it is like you are walking across an alien planet. You will never quite see the moon so big and bright and so clear and so close as on a cold artic night. The northern light and stars can also dassel you.
You can feel how cold space is and how close it is. A tiny layer of atmosphere is all that keeps us alive.
As I write this there are men and women out building a winter road to the norths gold and diamond mines. There are grews out running diamond drills.Doing geophysics. Checking trap lines or staking mineral claims. Driving trucks and snow machines across frozen lakes.Loading and unloading aircraft. Quite a contrast from the hustle and bustle of the stock market.
regards Walt
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