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To: hank2010 who wrote (35964)	3/15/2007 12:41:48 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 78419

It is an advantage to freeze anatomy in this game. You need icewater in your veins to play it. I too have frozen in the winter staking and doing other fun geological stuff. Skidoos thru the ice, dropped trees on skidoos cutting firewood. Ran out of wood in the stove at 4 AM at 40 below and had to go out and cut trees down by flashlight. Drove 50 miles north of the highway in 1.5 feet of snow, to skidoo 15 miles to set up camp in the middle of the night at 40 below. And when we decamped all 12 skidoos broke down on the road out. Had to light a fire under the truck to get it to start as it had been sitting for 15 days.. Ever come out of the bush after 2 weeks, carrying your camp on your back from a 17 mile hike, your truck has a flat tire, and there is no spare? And it's 40 miles to the highway? That is when you want the contractor for the job to come looking for you after, as that was 5 hours past your scheduled out-time, two weeks on. And there he was 12 miles into the hike out to the highway.. with tea and sandwiches. Whatever else you could say about Knut Kuhner, I would forgive, for that one prescient action of anticipated rescue that could only have come from the experience and foresight of having been there. Fun, fun fun. Cut myself staking with an axe and climbed 3 miles out of the mountains to arrive at hospital, a perfect blue, registering a body temperature of 86. Put Elan skidoos on top of the airtight stove to warm them up so they would start. Driven across lakes, crouched shivering behind the windshield where the Tundra would only get to 700 rpm in a slow miserly putter. It was snapping some frosty. Worked half the day and had the crew quit because it was too cold. They walked 10 miles to town! No skidoos would work. So I get to La Sarre by noon and it has warmed up to 50 degrees Celsius below zero. You couldn't see anything from further than 25 feet as the condensation from car exhausts filled the air throughout the town in an impenetrable cloud. If they bring in map staking in Ontario, as they have in Quebec and Newfoundland, they will have to supply buckets of ice water to stand in or I won't be able to do it. Every so often the pencils should break and you should have to walk 5 miles to get a new one. The have to duplicate the conditions somehow or the whole romance of the job will be lost. If your wits aren't sharpened in this manner, it is probable you won't be able to pick out worthwhile ground. After all it has to be worth it or your wouldn't go to all that trouble. EC<:-}