Next Monday I’m leaving the city. This time my way goes to Olenegorsk. There we’ll find some way to reach the Lavosero lake. There we’ll assemble our catamarans and head north.
One week later we’ll reach the Arctic Ocean.
I’ll be back here in the end of August. Although, those who’ve been there insist that that won’t happen - that will be not me who comes back, that will be some other person, as the North changes people.
We’ll see.
Anyway, seems that trip is going to be something that one never forgets.
Catamarans near the arctic? I could not dress warmly enough.
It is bad, but not that bad Even beyond the polar circle there is summer sometimes.
It is usually 10-15C (50-60F) during the day and 0-10C (30-50C) in the night there in August. May be down to -10C (15F) and even lower, but not all the time. Water in the ocean is 10C (50F).
What will you be eating that whole time? How big is the catamaran?
Food - just the common travellers’ stuff - all sorts of cereals (buckwheat, rice, etc), mashed potatoes, tinned stew and canned fish, summer sausage and all other things which are lightweight, but nutritious and can be kept long. These places are (almost) uninhabited, so you can always find clean water to drink and to cook, and wood to make fire.
Each catamaran is for 6 people, there are two of them.
My mom has been to the Artic Ocean twice aboard the Yamal. Loved it so much the first time she had to go back. Have a great time! Will you being fishing for food?
Yes, we’ll do fishing, but we do not rely on fish or mushrooms as a food source - maybe we’ll get them, maybe not. So we take enough food to live even if our fishing and mushroom gathering will give no result.
My grandfather carved fish whistles, two of my uncles who both became physicists knew they wouldn’t, couldn’t work, but all the empirical data(they caught fish) suggested otherwise
Fish and whistle, whistle and fish
You eat everything that they put on your dish
And when when you get through you make a big wish
That you never have to do this again
Even beyond the polar circle there is summer sometimes.
that’s good 
