Home | Community | Message Board

World Seed Supply
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Original Sensible Seeds Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds   Bridgetown Botanicals Bridgetown Botanicals   North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order   Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom

Jump to first unread post Pages: < Back | 1 | 2 | 3 | Next >  [ show all ]
Offlineshivas.wisdom
בּ
 User Gallery

Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 02/19/09
Posts: 13,428
Loc: Turtle Island
Last seen: 2 hours, 44 minutes
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: Gr33nTree73] * 1
    #24179758 - 03/21/17 08:40 AM (6 years, 10 months ago)

It's not a process I'm personally familiar with, so I can't say for sure. In truth, Canada isn't going to make immigration easy unless you're rich (despite the rhetoric of our government), but I would imagine that the Yukon and NWT have less demand/waiting, due to the low population of immigrants coming to these places. Our 8 month long winters provide a far stronger natural border than anything government could supply.

Dawson City has a sizable Philippino community and Inuvik has a somali community. I can only assume it is a quicker immigration process that convinces someone who grew up in Somalia to move to a Canadian arctic community.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflinePatlal
You ask too many questions
Male User Gallery


Registered: 10/09/10
Posts: 44,795
Loc: Ottawa Flag
Last seen: 2 hours, 9 minutes
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: shivas.wisdom] * 2
    #24179781 - 03/21/17 08:55 AM (6 years, 10 months ago)

I'm actually considering buying a plane ticket to yellowknife right now...


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleGr33nTree73
 User Gallery


Registered: 05/23/06
Posts: 4,095
Loc: 585/843
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: Patlal]
    #24179813 - 03/21/17 09:15 AM (6 years, 10 months ago)

I'm living my dream being able to live in the Adirondacks at the moment but something about the pure isolation up there and all the beautiful pictures I saw has me very intrigued.  I don't mind cold tempuratures and it would be nice to be in a dryer climate where the snow is minimal compared to here.  Seems like a really connected little "hippy city" from what I've seen and read so far as well.  I'm curious what cannabis prices must be like up there though?  Supposedly food/home prices really aren't as durastic a difference as I thought they would be from mainland areas. 

Realtime Aurora @ Yellowknife :mushroom2:



Shivas, what city/area in the Yukon are you located?  How tough/expensive is it to get hookups for things that far north?


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflinePatlal
You ask too many questions
Male User Gallery


Registered: 10/09/10
Posts: 44,795
Loc: Ottawa Flag
Last seen: 2 hours, 9 minutes
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: Gr33nTree73] * 1
    #24179814 - 03/21/17 09:15 AM (6 years, 10 months ago)

Cherry. Wanna meet up at Yellownife?


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlineshivas.wisdom
בּ
 User Gallery

Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 02/19/09
Posts: 13,428
Loc: Turtle Island
Last seen: 2 hours, 44 minutes
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: Patlal]
    #24179898 - 03/21/17 09:51 AM (6 years, 10 months ago)

If you're going for sightseeing, definitely make sure you get out of the 'big city'. The capital cities (Whitehorse and Yellowknife) may be the centres of commerce, but the cultural heart of the Yukon (and I can only assume NWT as well) lies in the sprinkling of tiny communities scattered across the land; and, of course, the epic landscapes themselves. Kluane national park and Tombstone territorial park are two examples from the Yukon, Nahanni national park is one in the NWT, and the Dempster highway is a road that links Dawson City, Yukon to Inuvik, NWT; crossing through some incredible country.

I couldn't recommend the north enough. Be careful, you may never leave. This is a map of my north american wanderings; the Yukon is the only place that got me to settle down for more than a month, and the only place I feel home.



--------------------


Edited by shivas.wisdom (03/21/17 10:01 AM)


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineBANANA.MAN
Turd Ferguson
Male

Registered: 01/11/15
Posts: 7,474
Loc: Ontario Canada
Last seen: 6 months, 1 day
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: shivas.wisdom]
    #24180031 - 03/21/17 10:39 AM (6 years, 10 months ago)

I go to the yukon once in a while. Havent been in years though.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisibletyrannicalrex
Strange R
Male User Gallery


Registered: 04/24/03
Posts: 38,323
Loc: subtropics
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: Ahab McBathsalts]
    #24180048 - 03/21/17 10:46 AM (6 years, 10 months ago)

Looks beautiful CB, but a bit isolated for me.

LOL, I guess they had to get rid of the "get a rope" part at the end of one of them due to it being violent.


--------------------


Edited by tyrannicalrex (03/21/17 10:46 AM)


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleCherryBomM
Yoga Gypsy
Female User Gallery

Registered: 12/26/98
Posts: 11,177
Loc: Ontario
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #24180476 - 03/21/17 01:46 PM (6 years, 10 months ago)

Yeah, I'm taking a leave of absence from Toronto to go hang out in the north.

I'll be there for June, July, Aug.  If anyone wants to hang out...Patlal.  Aren't you from QC?

I don't have a solid reason why I feel the need to do this, I'm just getting called and I have the means, so here I go.  It's not my first venture into the northlands.  I'm definitely a Toronto girl born and raised, but I just gotta get the fuck out of this dirty city sometimes you know?

Shiva:  I see you spent some time in Inuvik too!  I have family there, so I'm hoping to make it up that far.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinespecialpeopleclub
Male User Gallery

Registered: 04/10/14
Posts: 5,584
Loc: Mitten
Last seen: 3 years, 7 months
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: CherryBom]
    #24180484 - 03/21/17 01:49 PM (6 years, 10 months ago)

That is pretty neat. Always wanted to visit Nunavut, but the lack of light literally will make me loose my mind.
Enjoy your frozen wasteland
So beautiful


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflinePatlal
You ask too many questions
Male User Gallery


Registered: 10/09/10
Posts: 44,795
Loc: Ottawa Flag
Last seen: 2 hours, 9 minutes
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: CherryBom]
    #24180510 - 03/21/17 01:57 PM (6 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

CherryBom said:
Yeah, I'm taking a leave of absence from Toronto to go hang out in the north.

I'll be there for June, July, Aug.  If anyone wants to hang out...Patlal.  Aren't you from QC?

I don't have a solid reason why I feel the need to do this, I'm just getting called and I have the means, so here I go.  It's not my first venture into the northlands.  I'm definitely a Toronto girl born and raised, but I just gotta get the fuck out of this dirty city sometimes you know?

Shiva:  I see you spent some time in Inuvik too!  I have family there, so I'm hoping to make it up that far.




I'm in Ottawa


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlineshivas.wisdom
בּ
 User Gallery

Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 02/19/09
Posts: 13,428
Loc: Turtle Island
Last seen: 2 hours, 44 minutes
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: specialpeopleclub]
    #24180676 - 03/21/17 02:52 PM (6 years, 10 months ago)

Hah! I'm actually in Toronto right now, waiting on a flight to Portugal, or else I would definitely join you. Inuvik is only accessible by road through the Yukon (the Dempster highway) but it sits on the Mackenzie river delta, if you felt up for navigating a river. You could probably reach Inuvik in four to six weeks by canoe, if you drove to Fort Simpson first. I've taken similar trips down the Yukon, something incredible about travelling these ancient roadways. Be aware, especially when you're floating through featureless flats rather than scenic mountains, a month-long canoe trip can get monotonous.

If you do make it up to Inuvik, you may as well head down to Dawson City. That my home, and a literal gem (or maybe gold nugget) of the north. It's only one to three days away by road, down the Dempster highway and through some incredible country. I traveled the road myself some years ago with some friends. Piled five dirty kids, a dog, and a bunch of instruments into a '87 toyota camry and made it up for July 1st long weekend. The town took us in with open arms; spent Canada day watching softball, eating burgers, arctic char, cake, bannock and dryfish. It's a shining memory of mine, that weekend. If you actually have family there, definitely set the intention.

A band from Nunavut, but they rock the inuk vibe that Inuvik has going on too:





Quote:

specialpeopleclub said:
That is pretty neat. Always wanted to visit Nunavut, but the lack of light literally will make me loose my mind.
Enjoy your frozen wasteland
So beautiful



Except remember the opposite, summers are full of light. Already you're getting about 12 hours of light up there, and in only a few weeks everything melts and spring hits hard and fast. Some of the flowers are already in bloom when the snow finally melts away and reveals them. You have a good stretch of maybe 70 days where the days never end and sunset just blends into sunrise.

Plus, even during those dark winters, you get the northern lights. Nothing more mystical then bundling up so you can go use your outhouse, only to be rewarding with that intoxicating dance.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinespecialpeopleclub
Male User Gallery

Registered: 04/10/14
Posts: 5,584
Loc: Mitten
Last seen: 3 years, 7 months
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: shivas.wisdom]
    #24180687 - 03/21/17 02:59 PM (6 years, 10 months ago)

What good does summer do when I've been in the dark for months? It can't be healthy. Fuck those places. Northern lights, you think they give you vitamin D?
Just thinking about it makes me agitated


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlineshivas.wisdom
בּ
 User Gallery

Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 02/19/09
Posts: 13,428
Loc: Turtle Island
Last seen: 2 hours, 44 minutes
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: specialpeopleclub]
    #24180714 - 03/21/17 03:08 PM (6 years, 10 months ago)

You're right, the north has large numbers of both alcoholics and artists (sometimes both at once!) for a reason; the winters are still my favourite season up there.

Robert Service described it perfectly, the spell of the yukon:

I wanted the gold, and I sought it;
  I scrabbled and mucked like a slave.
Was it famine or scurvy—I fought it;
  I hurled my youth into a grave.
I wanted the gold, and I got it— 
  Came out with a fortune last fall,— 
Yet somehow life’s not what I thought it,
  And somehow the gold isn’t all.

No! There’s the land. (Have you seen it?)
  It’s the cussedest land that I know,
From the big, dizzy mountains that screen it
  To the deep, deathlike valleys below.
Some say God was tired when He made it;
  Some say it’s a fine land to shun;
Maybe; but there’s some as would trade it
  For no land on earth—and I’m one.

You come to get rich (damned good reason);
  You feel like an exile at first;
You hate it like hell for a season,
  And then you are worse than the worst.
It grips you like some kinds of sinning;
  It twists you from foe to a friend;
It seems it’s been since the beginning;
  It seems it will be to the end.

I’ve stood in some mighty-mouthed hollow
  That’s plumb-full of hush to the brim;
I’ve watched the big, husky sun wallow
  In crimson and gold, and grow dim,
Till the moon set the pearly peaks gleaming,
  And the stars tumbled out, neck and crop;
And I’ve thought that I surely was dreaming,
  With the peace o’ the world piled on top.

The summer—no sweeter was ever;
  The sunshiny woods all athrill;
The grayling aleap in the river,
  The bighorn asleep on the hill.
The strong life that never knows harness;
  The wilds where the caribou call;
The freshness, the freedom, the farness—
  O God! how I’m stuck on it all.

The winter! the brightness that blinds you,
  The white land locked tight as a drum,
The cold fear that follows and finds you,
  The silence that bludgeons you dumb.
The snows that are older than history,
  The woods where the weird shadows slant;
The stillness, the moonlight, the mystery,
  I’ve bade ’em good-by—but I can’t.

There’s a land where the mountains are nameless,
  And the rivers all run God knows where;
There are lives that are erring and aimless,
  And deaths that just hang by a hair;
There are hardships that nobody reckons;
  There are valleys unpeopled and still;
There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons,
  And I want to go back—and I will.

They’re making my money diminish;
  I’m sick of the taste of champagne.
Thank God! when I’m skinned to a finish
  I’ll pike to the Yukon again.
I’ll fight—and you bet it’s no sham-fight;
  It’s hell!—but I’ve been there before;
And it’s better than this by a damsite—
  So me for the Yukon once more.

There’s gold, and it’s haunting and haunting;
  It’s luring me on as of old;
Yet it isn’t the gold that I’m wanting
  So much as just finding the gold.
It’s the great, big, broad land ’way up yonder,
  It’s the forests where silence has lease;
It’s the beauty that thrills me with wonder,
  It’s the stillness that fills me with peace.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinespecialpeopleclub
Male User Gallery

Registered: 04/10/14
Posts: 5,584
Loc: Mitten
Last seen: 3 years, 7 months
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: shivas.wisdom]
    #24180731 - 03/21/17 03:14 PM (6 years, 10 months ago)

Gonna have to read over that a few times.
Don't take it wrong, the north defenately has a spell.
It's magic makes the south peninsula of my state seem impotent in comparison.

Canada has what, the second largest taiga after Siberia? The largest forests in the world. Thousands of lakes. It got all the majesty of being clawed out of the rock by continent sized glaciers.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Onlinekoods
Ribbit
Male User Gallery


Registered: 05/26/11
Posts: 106,045
Loc: Maryland/DC Burbs
Last seen: 4 minutes, 34 seconds
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: shivas.wisdom]
    #24180760 - 03/21/17 03:26 PM (6 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

shivas.wisdom said:
This is my home:






That's quite the landslide that barely missed killing a bunch of people


--------------------
NotSheekle said
“if I believed she was 16 I would become unattracted to her”


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlineshivas.wisdom
בּ
 User Gallery

Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 02/19/09
Posts: 13,428
Loc: Turtle Island
Last seen: 2 hours, 44 minutes
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: specialpeopleclub]
    #24180764 - 03/21/17 03:28 PM (6 years, 10 months ago)

Oh I hear ya, that's why I call it my home; but it also has eight months of dark winter where -40 (C or F it don't matter) is a regular thing, and that's why only another ~113,400 people call the territories home too.

Really, I'm just using this thread as an excuse to wax nostalgic about life north of the 60th parallel for a bit and forget that I still have a couple weeks left on my Toronto sentence.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Onlinekoods
Ribbit
Male User Gallery


Registered: 05/26/11
Posts: 106,045
Loc: Maryland/DC Burbs
Last seen: 4 minutes, 34 seconds
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: shivas.wisdom]
    #24180773 - 03/21/17 03:30 PM (6 years, 10 months ago)

Nvm the landslide predates the city.

Quote:

The Dawson City Landslide is located at the northern edge of Dawson City, Yukon and took place prior to 1740 years B.P. The landslide occurred at the contact between the metasedimentary rocks of the Yukon–Tanana Terrane and the overlying altered ultramafic rocks of the Slide Mountain Terrane. The main part of the failure comprises altered ultramafic rocks, which have a lower Geological Strength Index (rock mass quality) than the underlying metasedimentary sequence. Division of the study area into smaller structural domains identified discontinuity sets associated with faulting along the contact of the two lithological units. A kinematic analysis of the identified discontinuity sets suggests that a toppling failure mechanism may be feasible. Due to the highly fractured nature of the ultramafic rock mass, a circular failure controlled by the low strength of the rock mass is considered a potential mechanism for the Dawson City Landslide. Limit equilibrium and finite difference numerical modelling codes support a circular failure mechanism hypothesis. However, a combination of high pore water pressure (ru = 0.3), and seismic loading are required to produce a factor of safety < 1.0.




--------------------
NotSheekle said
“if I believed she was 16 I would become unattracted to her”


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlineshivas.wisdom
בּ
 User Gallery

Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 02/19/09
Posts: 13,428
Loc: Turtle Island
Last seen: 2 hours, 44 minutes
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: koods]
    #24180800 - 03/21/17 03:41 PM (6 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

That's quite the landslide that barely missed killing a bunch of people



That's Moosehide slide, a permament rockslide/possible rock glacier, and it happened in prehistoric times. The Tr'ondek Hwech'in (local first nation band) have a danoja (long time ago) story about the origins, and they say not only did it kill a bunch of people, it was intentional:


Quote:

Dänojà animals lived like people. The animals hunted, fished and gathered like people, we’ll really they were people, but all animals knew how to lived together peacefully long ago.

Dänojà people lived relatively peaceful lives in Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in country until cannibals came along. Many people would travel from all over to come into Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in country, but there were a group called cannibals who also came into the country, and they bothered people. These cannibals were everywhere, and they were not very pretty looking people, not like the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in today. They looked liked they wanted to eat all kinds of things, they were always stewing up something. These cannibals also played many games, very tricky games that bothered the people. They even bothered themselves. They cannibals were making tricky plans to bother people.

Well, the cannibals were bothering people so much, they decided they were going to climb a hill to get away from the cannibals. So they climb a hill near where is now Moosehide to get away from the cannibals. Now, the people were really fed up with the cannibals tricky plans.

So while they were on top of the hill, they decided to have an emergency council meeting to discuss what to do. What are they going to do? Well all the people noticed there were lots of big trees on the hill in those times.

Someone suggested that they should cut down a tree to roll it down the hill. That sounded like a good idea, but how were they going to cut down a tree. Well, people only had axe made of sharp rock in those days. So someone piped up that they will use this stone axe to cut down a tree.

Now their next problem, was to figure out which tree to cut down? What tree will they choose? Now they were wondering around the trees sizing them up. They come upon the first tree that looked a good size, and they decided . . . that it was too small. They need a bigger tree.

So they looked at another tree. . . well that it was better than the first one. . . but it was still not big enough.

So, then they sized up the third tree, but still not big enough.

Finally after searching through all the trees, they come upon the biggest tree in the forest. They are leaping with joy because this will be the one they use to roll down the hill to take out the cannibals that are bothering them.

They thanked the tree for allowing it to be chopped down, and they begin the hard work of chopping with a stone axe.

Immediately, they are ready to roll this gigantic tree down the hill. Kapow! The tree starts a big slide! The tree crashes down the hill towards the cannibal! The slide heads towards the cannibals, but the cannibals cannot escape, they are buried!

The people are joyful that the cannibals will not bother them any more. They have a big party, they sing and dance. They have big potlatch!

They also notice that the slide is shaped like a hide of a moose, and so the people called the place below the hill, Moosehide.




--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinespecialpeopleclub
Male User Gallery

Registered: 04/10/14
Posts: 5,584
Loc: Mitten
Last seen: 3 years, 7 months
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: shivas.wisdom] * 1
    #24180817 - 03/21/17 03:46 PM (6 years, 10 months ago)

We really should call ours 'firat nation's ' too. It just sounds so neat


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleCherryBomM
Yoga Gypsy
Female User Gallery

Registered: 12/26/98
Posts: 11,177
Loc: Ontario
Re: Shroomerites in Yellowknife? [Re: koods]
    #24180819 - 03/21/17 03:47 PM (6 years, 10 months ago)

Super cool stuff.

What are you doing in Toronto, are you a gypsy? Do you live anywhere?  Toronto's not so bad.  Kind of stinky and no personal space, but it could be worse.  It's definitely interesting!

I'm looking forward to getting out for a little while.  I'd like to seek out the YK yoga peeps, maybe talk to some people about how yoga meshes with traditional native cultures.  I know there's a successful studio in Iqaluit doing some really cool community stuff.  I'm sure there's some yogis in YK too. I don't know if I'll canoe to Inuvik, but I might rent a car and drive.  Should take two or three days from YK depending on how hard I push it.

I wonder how the canoeing is on Great Slave Lake?


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: < Back | 1 | 2 | 3 | Next >  [ show all ]

Shop: Original Sensible Seeds Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds   Bridgetown Botanicals Bridgetown Botanicals   North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order   Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Overlanders... Let's see your builds. Maverick 251 6 02/21/18 10:47 AM
by Maverick
* Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
( 1 2 all )
Psilocybeingzz 4,215 39 09/09/08 03:25 PM
by Boots
* The magic roundabout Doc_T 889 14 01/02/10 08:36 AM
by Epilson Lyrae
* Shroomerites Anonymous JapaneseEmpress 1,177 17 06/05/08 12:18 PM
by Chemy
* Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization - refutation truekimbo2 1,619 9 09/07/08 10:48 AM
by hazey
* Fuck Hipsters
( 1 2 3 4 all )
MarioTrip 6,172 60 01/09/10 02:15 AM
by learningtofly
* Hipster Trends Across the Internet (no, not hippy, hipster) Twirling 2,810 18 05/31/05 09:52 PM
by Twirling
* "I would like to use *insert drug* with *insert shroomerite you never met RL*"
( 1 2 3 4 ... 19 20 )
Asante 13,373 380 09/12/12 09:03 PM
by Sophistic Radiance

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Entire Staff
644 topic views. 4 members, 32 guests and 4 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.027 seconds spending 0.007 seconds on 16 queries.