Deline, population 533, is usually the last Sahtu community to be connected by road because contractors have to wait for the ice to thicken along the nine-kilometre Great Bear Lake portion of the crossing. Dinner at B&B Comfortable Hotel accommodations. There is no better fishing in the world. Ice in some valley lakes in the Scandinavian Mountains range began to form as early as mid-November, which is ~1 month earlier than the mean (Fig. We reserve the right to close comments at any time. Lake ice phenology, which encompasses freeze-up (ice-on) and break-up (ice-off) dates, and ice cover duration, is predominantly influenced by air temperature changes and, therefore, is a robust indicator of regional climate trends and variability. Great Bear Lake boasts the All-Tackle World Records for Lake Trout and Arctic Grayling, as well as dozens of line class records. Šmejkalová, T., M. E. Edwards, and J. "So I slowed down.". Please note that CBC does not endorse the opinions expressed in comments. Process., 21, 1576-1586. These lakes have shown positive ICD anomalies for 7 of the last 14 ice seasons, with most of the longer ICD anomalies in the past six seasons. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. Water flows out of the lake into the Great Bear River, then into the Mackenzie River.Other rivers connected to the lake include the Dease, Camsell and Johnny Hoe. GCOS, 2016: The Global Observing System for climate: Implementation needs, GCOS-200. According to Greg Hanna, a spokesperson with the Department of Infrastructure, the road reopened to light traffic on Thursday afternoon. Despite the later FU on Great Bear Lake, when ice did begin to form, the lake froze over faster than the mean time needed to freeze, freezing over completely in 25 days (vs. 30 days mean). When Lakes Ladoga and Onega did freeze over, a complete ice cover formed ~2 weeks faster than the mean freeze time for each lake. The ice roads of Northern Canada are disappearing, CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices. Duguay, C., L. Brown, K. -K. Kang, and H. Kheyrollah Pour, 2015a: [The Arctic] Lake ice [in "State of the Climate in 2014"]. Leonard Kenny was the first person Gaudet helped navigate around the ridge. ICD on other large lakes, Great Bear and Great Slave lakes, and Lake Taymyr, show variations around the mean with ICD anomalies ranging from -18 to +26 days of ice compared to the mean of all seasons examined, with Great Slave and Great Bear lakes showing negative (shorter ICD) anomalies in 9 of past 14 seasons. J. He said the crack was located about 100 metres from shore. Tracking recent environmental changes relative to historical records, Conserving and managing our Arctic Ocean resources, Providing weather information to protect lives, property, and management, Observing the Arctic ocean and atmosphere to understand and forecast Arctic change, Providing environmental intelligence to understanding the complex Arctic system, Conserving and managing Arctic living marine resources and their habitats, Arctic Ocean Primary Productivity: The Response of Marine Algae to Climate Warming and Sea Ice Decline, Migratory Tundra Caribou and Wild Reindeer, Clarity and Clouds: Progress in Understanding Arctic Influences on Mid-latitude Weather, Microplastics in the Marine Realms of the Arctic with Special Emphasis on Sea Ice. Soc., 96, S144-S145. Freeze-up during the 2017/18 ice season occurred within ±1-2 weeks of the 2004-17 mean for most regions of the Arctic. With a few exceptions, break-up dates were within ±1 week from the 2004-17 mean across the Arctic. Zillow has 99 homes for sale in 84028 matching Bear Lake. Lakes located in northeastern Canada and immediately to the west of Hudson Bay experienced FU close to the 2004-17 mean (±1 week earlier or later). Approximately 15,000 4-km pixels are identified as water in the region north of 58° N. Freeze-up (FU) in 2017/18 occurred earlier than the 2004-17 mean by ~1-3 weeks for most of Siberia, Norway, Sweden, and northern Finland. Hundreds of miles from civilization, Great Bear Lake Lodge is the 4th largest lake in North America and is fished by only 300 lucky anglers each year. The Lake is one of the deeper lakes in the world at 1463 feet, and the water is a pristine lake environment. Although construction of the the winter road to Tuktoyaktuk ended with the opening of the all-weather road in 2017, the Western Arctic still offers a pretty (and pretty legendary) ice road. However, this is not always the case. Deline, N.W.T., sits on Great Bear Lake north of Yellowknife. Bull. Located in the same region, Great Slave Lake froze over completely in 16 days (vs. 36 days mean). Analyses of records from ground-based observational networks have provided much of the evidence of long-term trends, variability and regime shifts in lake ice phenology. ICD was longer by ~1-2 weeks for most other regions of the Arctic. All areas and trails east of Bear Lake Road have reopened. Since BU anomalies were relatively small, the spatial pattern of ice cover duration (ICD) anomalies followed closely that of FU anomalies. Great Bear Lake. remediation project, AUDIO | The ice roads of Northern Canada are disappearing. Duguay, C. R., T. D. Prowse, B. R. Bonsal, R. D. Brown, M. P. Lacroix, and P. Ménard, 2006: Recent trends in Canadian lake ice cover. It's a two-and-a-half hour drive to the nearest community, Tulita. Rep., 6, 38449. 2Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada. "He called us and gave us a warning that there's a huge crack in the ice," he said. Great Bear Lake, located in the Northwest Territories, is the largest lake located entirely inside Canadian borders.It is also the fourth largest in North America and the eighth largest in the world. The mean freeze time is 54 days for Lake Ladoga and 40 days for Lake Oneida, for the 2004-07 period. Sci. Great Bear Lake boasts the All-Tackle World Records for Lake Trout and Arctic Grayling, as well as dozens of line class records. Deline, N.W.T., sits on Great Bear Lake north of Yellowknife. Int. Hydrol. Break-up (BU) anomalies were relatively small for the 2017/18 ice season. Audience Relations, CBC P.O. "So I found a way around it and realized well, it's cracked even beyond that.". West of the latter region, and in the Mackenzie Basin (e.g., Great Bear Lake) and the western coast of Alaska, FU occurred later than mean conditions by ~2 weeks, with some small sections of Great Bear Lake exceeding 3 weeks later. For this report, lake ice phenology dates (freeze-up/ice-on and break-up/ice-off dates) and ice cover duration are derived from the NOAA Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System (IMS) 4-km resolution grid daily product for the 2017-18 ice season over the Arctic. Gaudet helped his friends across and decided to stay behind to warn other travellers who might be coming down the road. Kheyrollah Pour, H., C. R. Duguay, A. Martynov, and L. C. Brown, 2012: Simulation of surface temperature and ice cover of large northern lakes with 1-D models: A comparison with MODIS satellite data and in situ measurements. There is an ice crossing from Deline to the winter road on the far side of the Great Bear River. 273-306. 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