Day 3 - Saturday, January 27th, 2001
 

Map of our route today!

Journey in a Nutshell
We left Chapleau, Ontario about 8 AM this morning to light snow and frigid temperatures (see below) .... We saw 3 bobcats along the trail... but weren't fast enough with the digital cameras, but mike got one with his regular camera, later a very large owl was sitting in a tree next to the trail... lots of Moose and Wolf tracks. We traveled north, stopping for lunch in Foyelet, Ontario. We battled cold temperatures all day, with everyone getting cold spots, nose, fingers, toes etc... Some of us spent the evening thawing out in the hot tub and Sauna. We are off to Hearst, Ontario in the morning.... should be off the trail by kick off of the super bowl..

Image Trek (click on pictures to enlarge)
We started the morning early, with temperatures -25 below 0, George picked up some frostbite on his cheeks, even the donuts we got from the local donut shop were freshly thawed... we had to nuke them in the microwave in our room. If it weren't for the heated handle bars, throttle and helmet shields. Along with boots rated to 100 below 0, and the expedition weight patagonia long underwear and extreme suits, we would freeze in about a minute. The wind chill traveling at 35 MPH at these temps is bone chilling 70 below 0.....
 

Pete named his sled today... "Clifford" after ."Clifford, the big red dog" of the children's books series. When asked why ?? his reply was "It wants to help all the helpless little animals and protect the little people" OK?
 

Sick and Sicker, both George and Julie seen here in the morning, had trouble going up and down and around, Julie mastered the art of taking her helmet off quickly....except for that one time.....  She managed to turn the white snow to green, brown, orange, blue and some weird shade of purple. By lunch she had enough and loaded her sled on the trailer and rode in the support vehicle the rest of the day. About 20 miles after we "The Woose" got in the truck, she was pulled over by the Royal Canadian Mounted Trail Police. Apparently it's illegal in northern Ontario to leave spots of green snow along the side of the trail. They were gonna give us a ticket but they let us go when we told them they were made by a girl. George on the other hand, toughed it out on the trail and completed the days ride!
 

The 2001 World Championships of Snow Douching were held today, the winner Bryon Pattullo seen here douching his victim. (click here to download video)