Beware of rig moves...

Charlie has been working away in the gas fields 250 km north of Fort St John. Most of the roads are winter access only roads which means that they are made of ice and cross what would be muskeg if the temperature were above freezing. Lots of these roads are only one vehicle wide and you have to be in constant radio contact with other drivers, otherwise you could run into 250 tonnes of drilling rig on a blind corner, such as the one pictured here.

The rules of the road are the bigger vehicle stays on it and the smaller vehicle bales into the ditch....

Charlie has been up there for a month with possibly another month to come. Most of the maintenance and new construction on the wells and facilities is carried out between December and March. Next time, you turn on your gas cooker to make a cup of tea (or in Canadian: your gas stove) think of all of the workers toiling in the gas fields in the middle of a northern winter to make it possible.