Gary Rolfe

This is a one month extract from Gary's diary...

1st February 2004
3rd February 2004
4th February 2004
5th February 2004
6th February 2004
7th February 2004
8th February 2004
9th February 2004
10th February 2004
11th February 2004
12th February 2004
13th February 2004
14th February 2004
15th February 2004
16th February 2004
17th February 2004
18th February 2004
19th February 2004
20th February 2004
21st February 2004
22nd February 2004
24th February 2004
25th February 2004
28th February 2004
2nd March 2004
3rd March 2004

Diary Extract - 2004
24th February I was first up. I wouldn't mind if Pingo slept on my cabin bed, but he won't. He prefers the below freezing bare floor. We ran on the river. I left the others resting. Most of the 22nd and yesterday were big 'sort out gear' days. Today I made a start at organizing, into specific folders, over 5,000 digital images shot over the last 3 weeks. Of these pictures I burnt 24 CD's of image files. So far I've backed these up by shooting 30 exposed rolls of slide film. Pingo ran by my side for an hour this evening. He's here now. I look at him and know I'll miss him very much.
25th February Willie Simon called around to see me tonight. Willie is a Gwitch'in Indian friend. He thoroughly enjoyed viewing a few pictures from the screen of my laptop and wasn't surprised to hear about all the wolf activity. Willie was once a fulltime trapper. Alone from September to March he worked a vast trap-line travelling between log cabins he'd built. Sporadically bush pilots would fly in to take his fur bundles.
28th February Peter Krizan is a friend from Inuvik who runs his dogs in the fan hitch method. We spent a couple of hours talking dogs this afternoon.
2rd March The first leg of my flight left in the early hours of the morning from Inuvik. I flew back to the UK. After the in-flight movie the dropdown screens informed us passengers that we were at 10,600 metres, moving at over 500mph and the temperature outside was - 52°C.
3rd March This evening I ran around Tooting Common in London, unfortunately without Pingo.
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