RE: [Paddlewise] Blubbering On

 Chuck,

This thread sounds like another reason to plan a trip to Churchill.  When my
family went up there 23 years ago they were offered muktuk.  So there you
have it we could paddle on the closest salt water to MN, race with hungry
polar bears and eat muktuk.  What more could you ask for.

Dana

> 
 > Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:41:52 -0600
 > From: Chuck Holst <CHUCK_at_multitech.com>
 > Subject: RE: [Paddlewise] Blubbering on
 > 
 > >>
 > Ok, folks.  Let's see how many of you kayakers are serious 
 > enough about 
 > emulating their Inuit paddling brethern to have eaten blubber?
 > >>
 > 
 > I haven't eaten blubber, but I have eaten pemmican made for Will
 > Steger's North Pole expedition that he had rejected for not 
 > being fatty
 > enough. (I thought it was pretty tasty.) I think it was in one of
 > Chapman's books about the British Arctic Air Route 
 > Expeditions that seal
 > blubber was described as tasting like walnut-flavored whipped cream.
 > Yum.
 > 
 > Chuck Holst
 > 
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