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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Two Heli's, and Company for Vikki

 There's a big beautiful Lodge here on the lake which needs it's roof shoveled off in the winter several times.  Usually we would have a compact strip made for the DeHavellan Beaver to land on..... but with the mild winter it is not even safe for the heli to land.  It just hovered and the Taku River Tlingits jumped out.  Bryan had checked several times and under the 3"crust his chain saw bar did not touch ice.  He figures there is a foot and a half of slush under the crust.


 And so one of the Helicopters had to land on our Heli Pad and the pilot turned out to be a woman and so Vikki had company for the day.  Paula had lots of interesting stories.  She's been working out of Whitehorse, Yukon for the last 3 years, also worked down at the Vancouver Olympics and with a Heli logging show out of Bella Cola.  She's now helping Norm at Discovery Helicopter out of Atlin, BC



1 comments:

Art said...

If I remember you said the lodge was build by an outfitter but pretty much remains unused. That's a pretty costly proposition to bring in a crew multiple times per winter for snow removal. Is there any use in the summer?