April 10, 2011

Owl-less Survey


"It's good... just gotta take it slower."

Famous last words, before proceeding a few more metres in the CR-V and getting stuck. Only nine of the 40-kilometre stretch of foggy logging road had melted to a point of navigability. Cue rigourous rocking/pushing sessions, a couple hundred metres in reverse to the nearest turnaround point, and then high-tailing it back to asphalt. The 2011 nocturnal owl survey was over before it began.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Great grey owls Survey? Near Pinawa? or on the way to Otter Falls?

Jeope said...

We were on a logging road north of Pine Falls, that heads into Nopiming. Part of an all-owls listening survey for the U of M.