Jim and Louise Fly to Eureka in the Canadian Arctic

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For more information on these pictures see Eureka Trip or the description of the trip published in the Janary issue of the American Bonanza Society magazine, "An Arctic Adventure".
Note: This is the story I submitted - without later edits - to be updated to the final version soon.

The trip plan, but the weather at Hudson Bay was below IFR minima


The original trip route. We actaully went further west to Lynn Lake, which is west of Chruchill, and Yellowknife, which is at the northern end of Great Slave Lake, the big one you see on the map west of Baker Lake


Lynn Lake, Manitoba


The Canadian shield


The line-up of the American airplanes at Yellowknife


Eskimo friends - the Kikoak family, Yellowknife


N2882W leads the pack of twins at the Cambridge Bay refueling stop.


Jim's turn to fly - enroute to Resolute at midnight


The Northwest Passage at midnight heading to Resolute Bay


Resolute after a fresh snowfall


Engine preheat at Resolute at -5 C (24 F). Fuel barrels await action


Refueling from barrels at Resolute Bay


Open leads in the sea ice


Eureka Sound


Ellesmere Island


Eureka, NWT, Canada, soon to be Eureka, Nunavut, Canada, the garden of the Arctic


Destination Eureka!!!


Luc launches the 6pm weather balloon at the Eureka Weather Station


Axel Heidberg Island enroute to the North Magnetic Pole


A sign on the wall at Montana Mickey's