My trip to Baffin Island has been posponed to 2025 -- a mishap in arctic extreme cold means a tour leader is unable to take us. He's recovering and will be okay! Thankfully!!
LOTS of work done to find options that worked to get us there next month, but we just couldn't make those work; seriously good customer service, underlining our choice of operator that's for sure! So all good, but for some disappointment which never hurt anybody
One thing is sure I'll now be very prepared come next spring
One great discovery -- I finally found a pair of mittens (glomitts, actually) that I found almost too warm (tho only tested in -8C) and way too warm wearing with a liner glove at that temp. And my Goretex mitten shells fit over perfectly. Wildly expensive for mittens, I already know I'd have paid more -- Kuiu's 'super down glassing glomitt'. I was also able to shoot wearing them -- they have a tiny slit (that 'seals' nicely when index finger tip is retracted back inside them) for the shutter finger and have traction beads which I found worked the rear control wheel easily, and they are 'thin enough and light enough being down filled) that I could easily feel the bbf button under my thumb.
Aaaand, I was purposefully delaying making my decision about a back up camera, for $ reasons, until the last minute so that's an expense that can now wait (or more likely applied elsewhere as my lust for the Plena has only grown ).
LOTS of work done to find options that worked to get us there next month, but we just couldn't make those work; seriously good customer service, underlining our choice of operator that's for sure! So all good, but for some disappointment which never hurt anybody
One thing is sure I'll now be very prepared come next spring
One great discovery -- I finally found a pair of mittens (glomitts, actually) that I found almost too warm (tho only tested in -8C) and way too warm wearing with a liner glove at that temp. And my Goretex mitten shells fit over perfectly. Wildly expensive for mittens, I already know I'd have paid more -- Kuiu's 'super down glassing glomitt'. I was also able to shoot wearing them -- they have a tiny slit (that 'seals' nicely when index finger tip is retracted back inside them) for the shutter finger and have traction beads which I found worked the rear control wheel easily, and they are 'thin enough and light enough being down filled) that I could easily feel the bbf button under my thumb.
Aaaand, I was purposefully delaying making my decision about a back up camera, for $ reasons, until the last minute so that's an expense that can now wait (or more likely applied elsewhere as my lust for the Plena has only grown
).
