I was up in Geraldton, Ontario this past week installing a new monitoring site. The site is half way between Geraldton and Longlac. Flew into Thunder Bay and then a 3.5 hour drive from there.

There was a lot of snow in town, they received a good dumping of snow just before we got there.

Everywhere you go in town, people get out of their cars and leave them running. Not just to run into the local store, but when they go in for dinner or the grocery store.

On the Wednesday, it was -26°C and -38°C with the windchill, but Thursday was a balmy -13°C with the windchill.

On Thursday evening we went to the Geraldton Curling Club to watch the Northern Ontario Senior Men’s Provincial Curling Championship. There were eight teams from around Northern Ontario playing for the right to play in the Canadian Senior Men’s Championship to be held in PEI in March. Among those playing was Al Hackner, a mainstay at the Labatt Brier during the 80’s and into the 90’s. He won 2 Brier’s and a World Championship.

On Friday we headed back to Thunder Bay to catch our flight back to Toronto. There is a giant snowman in Beardmore, ON. It stands at 35ft.

My colleague had never been to the Terry Fox Monument, so I made him stop to see a piece of Canadiana.

It was another challenge getting home, we boarded our flight, and before I had boarded they had already made an announcement that there was a ground closure at Pearson Airport due to snow in Toronto. They only had one runway open and with a backlog of flights, they delayed us. We spent one hour sitting on the plane, before they de-planed us and waited for another hour before we boarded again and were able to take-off.