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Has anybody here been to the Arctic or Antarctic?
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Not exactly your most common tourist destination, but I think it would be damn, damn cool to go there! There probably isn't a whole lot to see and do, but man, wouldn't this be a totally unforgettable experience? Wouldn't this be totally surreal? If people travel for miles to go to scenic places of great natural beauty like the Grand Canyon, why not to the most beautiful parts of the Arctic or Antarctic?
Has anybody gone, or at least contemplated going, or am I just weird? Am I the only one captivated by the scenes in documentaries such as March of the Penguins?
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Living in Canada wasn't close enough to the Arctic for you, eh?
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I've been wading in the Arctic Ocean. It was, ah, bracing.
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Someone made a thread here (a couple of years ago, perhaps?) about his job where he’d been living on Antarctica for a few months, observing some kind of animal, I think … details are hazy.
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there are a few guys on a local (to me) automotive forum who work at McMurdo (sp?) and they say it's quite boring...
apparently it gets a little wacky at times...
personally, I would not mind if I never get the opportunity to visit that part of the globe...
-Zach
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I say go to northern WI sometime this winter, lock yourself in a cabin for a few months with supplies. Would probably simulate the same thing.
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Yes, although only to Nunavut, which is still considered the southern arctic. It's an amazing place. In mid-April night temperatures were a balmy -35º Celsius.
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The closest I've been is crossing the Arctic Circle on a sub. Did the Bluenose ceremony and got hosed down with Arctic water. it was a bit chilly, to say the least.
But, no, never set foot at either one.
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Not really. But I flew over the Arctic two years ago.
It looked quite nondescript, and white.
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I got farther north than ever before in my life this past summer. Cruised to Juneau, AK then to Skagway. Funny thing was that while Skagway was quite temperate, farther south we sailed into an inlet fed by a glacier-and it was MAD cold!
residentEvil is right about most Alaska cruises being relatively family friendly and touristy. While we sailed at the end of May while a lot of schools were still in session, and thus had relatively few kids on the cruise, there were a TON of "older adults" on the cruise, which altered the way it went about the same way that kids might have.
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yeah, don't get me wrong, the cruise i took in alaska was a lot of fun. from the week tour on land (train/bus) to the cruise itself, i experienced a lot. i went too, end of May, after 9/11. nobody was traveling and couldn't pass up the price; and it was mostly older crowd as gphorter said but some of the excursions were just too kiddie like. the excursions that we got to pick i was able to do more adventerous things and got to experience "alaska", not "summer camp/made for tv/disney esque what we think you want to see alaska".
i'm excited for the arctic and antarctic trips; really will be one of a kind/unique and limited to those who truely want to experience these frontiers as they were meant to be...not canned "experiences" presented 5x a day for 10,000 cruise ship goers (in any given 24 hour period, some 5 cruise ships will come through a port of call...with an average of 2000 passengers).
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Originally Posted by osiris
Not really. But I flew over the Arctic two years ago.
It looked quite nondescript, and white.
racist.
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Originally Posted by residentEvil
yeah, don't get me wrong, the cruise i took in alaska was a lot of fun. from the week tour on land (train/bus) to the cruise itself, i experienced a lot. i went too, end of May, after 9/11. nobody was traveling and couldn't pass up the price; and it was mostly older crowd as gphorter said but some of the excursions were just too kiddie like. the excursions that we got to pick i was able to do more adventerous things and got to experience "alaska", not "summer camp/made for tv/disney esque what we think you want to see alaska".
i'm excited for the arctic and antarctic trips; really will be one of a kind/unique and limited to those who truely want to experience these frontiers as they were meant to be...not canned "experiences" presented 5x a day for 10,000 cruise ship goers (in any given 24 hour period, some 5 cruise ships will come through a port of call...with an average of 2000 passengers).
I know exactly what you mean. I use to work on cruise ships.
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I love The Thing. One of my favorite movies.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
I love The Thing. One of my favorite movies.
The original isn't bad, either.
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Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey
The original isn't bad, either.
Yeah, but I absolutely love the special affects in The Thing. Superb robotics and puppetry.
On a related note, I think it'd be interesting to spend a year at an arctic research station.
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