27 June 2016 Waterfall Hike

So What Do You Do When It's Too Cold and Rainy to Trap Insects?

You go for a hike, of course!

The clouds were so low over the river this morning, that it almost looked like you could reach up and touch them!

So we finished our morning's work, collecting insect sticky traps; these had been in place for a week and were ready to be collected. We wrapped each trap (a sticky, white circle about 4cm (2.5 inches) in diameter on a wire stick) in plastic wrap and labeled the date and location; the insects will be identified and counted later. There were 30 traps at each of ten locations, all documented by GPSA Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system used to track the location or position of objects on the Earth’s surface.. Once all 300 traps were collected from sites spaced several kilometers apart, we were ready for a little R&R.

We followed a vehicle track for a while until we reached a bluff below the waterfall. Then we followed an animal trail (used by caribou and musk oxen) along the edge of the cliff, until we were closer to the waterfall. Such a spectacular view!

The river water here is usually grey because it carries so much sediment from the moraines. You can see it rushing between cliffs and over jumbled bolders on its journey to the fjord and eventually the Atlantic Ocean.

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