[recent executive correspondence: UC#1=>The Texas Elders]
Fellow WLBOTT’ers,
While I have know about the Trans Canada Trail for many years, until recently I never knew how extensive it is. We frequently walk the part of the trail that goes around [UC#1 jurisdiction] but that is a very small part of it.
Of course, the trail isn’t quite contiguous and nobody in their right mind would walk along sections like Hwy xx (south of [UC#1 jurisdiction]) for fear of being mowed down by a wide-load heading out to some oil well site. But officially it is 28,000 km long, which I am pretty sure beats anything else in the world. That is literally 70% of the circumference of the earth.
Check it out: https://tctrail.ca/
UC#1
WLBOTT official corporate response:
UC#1, I think it will make a profitable BLOTT and increase shareholder value.
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Okay, our team is off to do the absolute minimum research necessary, and will focus on buffets along the route.
– UC#4
p.s. UC#1, one minor correction: That is literally 70% of the circumference of the earth. You are assuming the Earth is round.
Welcome to our 1st of 17⅝ installments of the Trans Canada Trail.
The Trans Canada Trail, officially named The Great Trail between September 2016 and June 2021, is a cross-Canada system of greenways, waterways, and roadways that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Arctic oceans. The trail extends over 24,000 km (15,000 mi); it is now the longest recreational, multi-use trail network in the world. – Wikipedia
Today we explore the Itijjagiaq Trail, up in Baffin Island.
Baffin Island: Quick Facts
- Baffin Island: anagram of Finland is fab!
- 507,451 square kilometres (195,928 square miles)
- Baffin Island is the largest island in Canada
- Fifth-largest island in the world
The Very Big Island:
WLBOTT WONDERS (or misfiring neurons): is there a connection between Very Big Island and The Big Chicken?
Baffin Island wildlife includes polar bears, Arctic foxes, caribou, Arctic hares, seals, walruses, Arctic wolves and of course whales—narwhals, orca, beluga and bowhead. – Quark Expeditions
Mt. Thor
Mt. Thor, in Baffin Island, known as the world’s tallest, steepest cliff, attracts climbers from around the world—only a handful of whom have succeeded in reaching the top. – Quark Expeditions
By Paul Gierszewski – Own work
CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30927251
Trans Canada Trail: Nunavut/ Itijjagiaq Trail
There is a small section of the trail on Baffin Island, Nunavut, from the capital city of Iqaluit south along the Itijjagiaq trail to Kimmirut. – Wikipedia
Iqaluit: Iqaluit (Inuktitut: ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ [iqaluit], lit. ‘place of many fish’) is the capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, its largest community, and its only city. – Wikipedia
The Frobisher Bay Golf and Country Club is a temporary golf course recreated every year in the middle of the bay, disappearing with the spring melt. Playing the par 52, 18-hole course can be a challenge: despite the 14 hours of sunlight, the temperatures hover around minus 20 below centegrade and the wind is a brisk 30 kilometres per hour. Every year, the Peter Gzowski Invitational tournament for literacy moves between cities in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The course is played on ice using coloured tennis balls. All proceeds go to support local and territorial literacy activities. – Par 3
Google Street View: Iqaluit Harbour ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ ᑐᓚᒃᑕᕐᕕᖓ
The Google street view for Iqaluit actually captures a dog sled team!
Inuktitut
Will there be a buffet?
Well, there’s a pretty good lookin’ brunch….
There must be an interesting supply chain.
Enough room for the entire WLBOTT community, their significant others, and grade school friends:
2 replies on “Trans Canada Trail: 1 of 17 ⅝”
Such a pleasure to see the results of in-depth investigative reporting. Keep up the good work, WLBOTT team.
Thanks, Wes! Welcome to WLBOTT.
But we don’t want to set expectations too high – remember Krusty’s Motto: It’s not just good, it’s good enough!