Into the wilderness, Greenland style. Photo by Martin Staley

Greenland’s ‘Red Dot’ Trail: 100 times longer, 1,000 times more remote. Courtesy/Martin Staley, Tanja Pietrass

PEEC News:

At the Mountaineers meeting Tuesday Feb. 25, Martin Staley and Tanja Pietrass will tell the story of their July/August 2019 adventure to Iceland and Greenland, the main ingredient of which was a 10-day, 100-mile backpack on Greenland’s remote and beautiful Arctic Circle Trail, basically following the Arctic Circle westward from Kangerlussuaq, near the ice cap, to Sisimiut on the coast. 

Highlights of the trip included a long backpack’s worth of remote and stunning scenery; hours-long rowing along a deep lake in a duct-taped canoe; surviving wildfires and raging rivers during our 10-day trek; Greenlandic and Greenlandish wildlife including musk oxen, caribou, hare-ibou (arctic jackalope), and mammoth; visiting Greenland’s famed ice cap; sampling delicious Greenlandic cuisine; and a finale of sightseeing and hiking in Iceland. 

The Mountaineers’ monthly meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of each month in the planetarium of the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC), starting with a social hour at 6:45 p.m. and reports of recent and upcoming trips at 7:05 p.m. The Greenland/Iceland program follows immediately thereafter.

As always, the public is welcome.