#northernproblems

[benjaminmcmahon]

still too hot. #northernproblems

[jbudenko]

When there's no parking spaces left so you park on the pile of snow... Lmao #northernproblems #truckowners #fortwayneindiana

[stevevacante]

The question I ask myself every day. #Michigan #northernproblems #winter #deepfreeze

[callmemeursault]

I could smell woodsmoke in the air as I watched the sun set tonight. (An aside: did you know that the sun set 14 minutes earlier in New York than it did in DC tonight?)

[pnutterbuttherb]

I miss publix :(

[upheremagazine]

Great Northern Yarns: "Can you hear me now?"

How to keep your spouse from worrying about you on a winter journey, as told to Tim Edwards

How to keep your spouse from worrying about you on a winter journey, explained by Gerald Fillatre, a wildlife officer and avid outdoorsman in the NWT.

“Before I ever had a sat phone, I used to travel in the winter on snowmobile trips by myself. My wife wasn’t always cool with this, but sometimes you travel outside of cellphone range. I’d tell her that I’d be gone for two days and be back at a certain time. We had a plan all figured out. But to remedy this one time, I went out to a cabin and there was about a 20 foot tree nearby. I climbed the tree and put a pulley on top, and attached a rope to that pulley, and I put a water bucket on it. So what I’d do is send a text message and put [the phone] in the bucket, and I’d send it up the tree 20 feet in the air so it would get reception [through an unimpeded signal to the cell tower], and then you could hear it ‘ding’ and then I’d bring it down, get the response, send a text message again and send it back up the tree.”