Where to start...

With prayers for the family members.  js

Work safe, go home safe...

I know that many of you are working today...  Christmas day.  How quick that we forget that many jobs still need to be covered off during the holidays.  I am especially aware of this due to traveling north to isolated sites.
Christmas is a time of year where our expectations may cause us to become distraught as life rarely lives up to our dreams. 
If you need to work today, please take care pay close attention to what you are doing... and get home to spend time with your loved ones.

Merry Christmas.  js

Last set of photos

Second course repeling.

Suiting up for the search exercise.

 Garbage bags to reduce visibility and to increase heat to rescuer.

Last morning onsite, waiting for bus to runway.  I love the north.  Enjoyed working with these fellows, look forward to training with them again.  js

Even more photos

Posing in his 'spring' butterfly harness.

The outside view.

The inside view, looking up.

Letting myself be used as a training aid (ya that's a pillow.... ;-).  js

More photos

Here's Gerry going over the edge. 

Crawling under obstacles.

 First course, last day.  js

Photo's

This is in front of the Municipal Airport in Val D'Or PQ.  I have not been in this area of Quebec since I was a young man, just flying through to Nunavut.

I am demonstrating a 'low anchor high repel no wall.  One of the course members was acting as repelmaster (Gerry O).

Letting my hand creep a little forward...

Here's one of the fellows, I demonstrated how to get out of a flip-over (common on a low anchor if you are not sitting and rotating to start your descent).  More pictures to follow.  js