Gargantuan thanks!

In mounting this extremely improbable project, I often thought, "wow, I've had a lot of pie-in-the-sky ideas, but most of them don't get this far." The jury's still out on whether this is going to turn to be a bad idea or a good idea, but I'm leaning toward good. There are a lot of reasons why we have made it this far and some are listed below. The rest of you - all of my friends and family that have put up with "Heidi the insane stressball" over the last couple of months - THANK YOU. You have calmed me down over the phone, come up to Edmonton to celebrate my birthday, and generally kept me sane. I can't thank all of you enough - this wouldn't be happening if it weren't for your donations of time, energy, equipment, and good ideas!! I have the best friends and family in the world!

Travel
- Guy Wight. Guy, we would not be up here without your help, THANK YOU SO MUCH for getting us to Cambridge.
- Fred Hamilton (runs the charter company out of Cambridge Bay).
- Frank in Cambridge Bay that found us a place to stay, some food, and white gas.

Wagon construction (the bane of my existence for the last three months)
- John Dunn and Sandy Briggs (the idea and many helpful hints)
- Harvey Thiessen (design, helping me buy the materials, cutting and drilling our pieces)
- Kelly Colwell (welding - for free!)
- Ed Bouffard (enduring many emails and being super helpful with pole construction)
- Walter (Thea's dad who lined up Kelly Colwell)
- Steph Neufeld, Gary Neufeld, Ian Miller, Dustin Miller (initial chassis design)
- Erik Allen (drilling all of our pole pieces and final construction)

Food preparation and dehydrating
- Selma Losic, Stella Swanson, Jason Swanson, Kathryn

Loans/donations/ equipment discounts
- Vince St Louis (shotguns, survival suit)
- Gary at Wholesale Sports
- All of the staff at Fishin' Hole West Edmonton Mall and southside
- Bob at Track 'N' Trail

Logistics
- Mike Braeuer. Mike, what can I say? Without you, we have NO gear and NO project. Thank you.
- Golder Associates Ltd and Miramar Hope Bay Ltd
- Greg Newhouse. Greg, thank you for trooping all over Vancouver in an outboard motor search for a second cousin (once removed)?
- Kent Kristensen

Funding and in-kind support
- Miramar Hope Bay Ltd
- Golder Associates Ltd
- Northern Scientific Training Program
- NSERC
- Canadian Northern Studies Trust

Special recognition
- Karen Kidd. There are only a few supervisors that would actually let me try to pull this off.
- Erik Allen, Stella Swanson. Thanks for helping us pull this out of the fire in the last two weeks.
- Steph Neufeld, Selma Losic. Thank you for listening to me RANT for the last 2 months.
- Kathryn - The Intrepid Research Associate (cue trumpet fanfare). Perhaps you didn't know exactly the gong show to which you were committing yourself, but you had a pretty good idea. And you know, there's just not a lot of people who will quit their perfectly good day job to take an extremely low-paying temporary job in the Arctic for a summer.

And NOW, we must find some charr (cue military march).

- Heidi