Mouth
of the Horton River on the shores of the Arctic Ocean
On
previous trips we've made to the arctic with our kids,
one of the hardest things we had to do was trying to
convince grandma that the kids would be okay. On this
trip, we took along a satellite phone and called home
every Sunday for the five weeks were gone. The quality of
the reception was fantastic and it certainly reassured
grandma while we were gone. It was reasuring to be able
to phone the float plane base the day before our pickup
to confirm that a plane was coming for us.
The
Satellite phone was much more reliable than any other
communication device we'd tried before. Since this trip,
we've used sat phones on two other occassions. We used a
unit similar to the one in the photo to do a live "web
cast" of our trip to the Athabasca
Sand Dunes
and we used one of the smaller Globalstar units on the
2001
Thelon Trip.
Both worked exceptionally well.
The
Horton River trip was a great adventure. I do plan to
post some photos and descriptions here in the future, but
I'm happy to answer any email questions about the river
([email protected])
