The first days

Our first day here was full of safety courses. Today was sea ice safety. We went through all the emergency gear, basics like how to use a whisper-lite stove, how to set up the 4-season tent on all terrains, perfected the truckers hitch, learned how to make a "dead man" to secure ties when you can't use stakes in the snow, learned how to navigate the sea ice, like identifying the safe and dangerous spots along the terrain, used the power drill to drill down about 4 meters, though we still didn't make it to the water. It was crazy to think we were standing on over 4 meters of ice...more 12 feet solid! Under us was about 100 feet of water, and that was just on the coast. In the middle of the sound it drops rapidly to thousands of feet deep...yet we can land massive planes on it.