Sioux Lookout

[SplitS]

Anyone live/lived in Sioux Lookout? Whats it like?

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You looking to move there?

It's a well kept secret on how nice it is there. Luscious vineyards, Full majestic gardens. Old world architecture. And beautiful women and fashion that rivals those of Milan, Italy.

Make the move..if you can afford it.

[Cat Driver]

It's O.K. as long as you don't get going to fast down hill on the taxiway.

Nice in the summer.

You can water ski without a boat there because I saw a lake with a hill on it.

Winter?

[phillyfan]

I lived there for 5 years (winters and summers). I really enjoyed my time there. Besides the bar room brawls and clingy lunatic ex girlfriends it's all good memories. I would really suggest throwing yourself into the situation. The guys that bought themselves a boat and some water-skis and a snowmachine for the winter enjoyed their time there and were a lot happier then the ones who sat around bitching about being stuck there. I still go there for maintenance a couple times a month and consider it a treat. Although compared to the town I work in now the Kingston Penitentiary would be a nice place to visit.
If you need any more specific info feel free to PM me.

[Cat Driver]

Philly :

There was a real big indigenious brute that used to beat up on all his friends that we called the missing link in Armstrong, I wonder if he is still around?

Cat

[ahramin]

indigenious

Isn't that an oxymoron?

[SplitS]

Birdog,

Thats what I thought, isnt there an international airport there that Virgin flies into every week?

[. .]

speed bird 247 in vacating FL350 for an approach at YXL.


Sioux Lookout is nicer than anywhere north of it, i promise you that.

[SplitS]

Endless,

Thats not saying much now is it!!!???

[Maverick and Goose]

Don't knock Sioux Lookout, it hosts the "Biggest Little Honkey Tonk in North Western Ontario".

The only real thing wrong with Sioux Lookout is all the pilots that live there!!!

[IFR Pilot]

If you know how to make the best of it you can have one hell of a great time...
Great people too except many locals find it hard to trust pilots as they do not have a good reputation in town.
It is also really hard to find decent living accomodations because of the low supply and high demand, and therefore inflated prices compared to everywhere else(except yyz).
You will also need a snowmobile.

[phillyfan]

Hey Cat

Not sure if he's still in Armstrong but it would be hard to pick him out since that describes just about everybody at the bar. We usually did all right when we go there. Having a 6 ft 4 300lb+ dockhand tended to tip the scales in our favour. It's a bizarre place for sure. The guy who is the DJ prefers the company of men. So you sit in the middle of CN workers, loggers and disgruntled first nations Canadians listening to "It's Raining Men".

Ah yes Mav, McFee's. There use to be a guy there who worked for the CN that ate his glass when he was done with it. He also smashed another guy in the mouth with a pool cue. When I went up to the guy I said "dude you lost a bunch of teeth" He just told me they were already missing, sat down and kept drinking his beer.

It was not even the worst bar. We use to start up at the 5th then crawl our way down to McFee's then finish the night at the Sioux Hotel. On the real bad nights we would end up buying a pizza from the guy who sells vehicle plates and validation stickers and pizza in the lobby. The pizza was at least consistent, it always tasted exactly like puke smells and the day after, you spent even more time on the shitter then after downing one of those square piece pizzas from the Chicken Chef. Then you'd hike down Front Street to the waterbase at 4am (before they hosed down the sidewalk) all the while stepping around blood, teeth, broken glass and passed out drunks.

I was so glad this past summer. They cancelled my lifetime ban at the 5th and removed my name from the list of deadbeats who wrote bad cheques at DJ's. I was able to go over to the fifth and watch that stripper they had. Business was not so good it was just two of us and the owner in pervert row and the fat girl behind the bar that’s been selling drinks there since the early 90's.

[IFR Pilot]

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[Colonel Sanders]

You still there, nine years later?

[Taiser]

Lived there for a bit. If you like fishing/hunting stuff it's great but the rest of the year... Cold as hell in the winter, boat loads of mosquitoes in the summer. No stores, no night life. Insane crime and bad elements everywhere.. no longer a place I would want to raise kids as it's gotten exponentially worse over the years. You have to drive to Dryden for any kind of shopping. When my sister was there she would do weekly or bi-weekly runs to Dryden for supplies because nothing is cheap in Sioux. If it's a career move, do your time and get out, if you don't have to go there, I wouldn't....

[pilotman15]

Lived there for 3 years all year round. Bite the bullet right away and get a snow machine, it will make the winters awesome. There are usually enough friends with boats in the summer to avoid purchasing a boat as well. Used to bitch about the negative parts of it when I lived there. Moved down south and pretty well wish everyday that I could go back (even with the cold). Had both pilot and local friends and both sets were top notch guys. Great experience.

[black hole]

I just left there after 5 years. I'm sure I out ran my shadow.

BH

[Liquid Charlie]

Well now -- likely being the most senior resident of Sioux Lookout out here -- Lived there since 1974 - only worked there for about 12 years -- well maybe 10 but have always kept my place on the lake and have always called it home and am there full time now again -- so as you can see I think it's a good place to live -- mind you I can escape with cheap tickets anytime and it does lack certain things but entertainment is what you make it -- so all you guys whole hang your hats in Siox PM me (especially in the summer ) and beers on the deck -- winter time beers over looking the lake -- haha -- spare bed if the stay is short -- not looking for a room mate -- -- unless she is on the "öld"side of cougar -- LMFOOOOOOO --

Good place to start of your aviation career --

[beech 18]

Oct 27, 2013

Sioux Lookout from the east looking west.
The bay where float and ski operations occur.
Pelican Lake.
The Iron Bridge. (CNR).
Sioux Mountain.


Photo is from Wikipedia. Unknown photographer.

[Antique Pilot]

I started my flying career in CYXL almost 45 years ago. I loved the place. I made some life long friends that I see on my annual visit. There are beautiful waterfront homes and properties and I have considered retiring there.

[Taiser]

Things have changed in the last 45 years. The new OPP detachment has one of the largest bullpens in all of Ontario to manage all the drunks they now scoop up every evening!

Now a nice place to visit, but it's not what it was, and getting worse every time I go there.

[1000 HP]

I worked there in 1991 for the summer. The lake was a great place to swim at that time. Philly's comments on the bars were accurate too. I remember flying a couple of old trappers out to a love shack with a hooker who had sweaty smeebs and smelly like she had not bathed in 2 months. They were happy to get there and I was even happier to drop them off. Another time I picked up a fridge with the beaver. We had to strap its door to the float legs and fly with the airplane doors off and the fridge hanging out 2 feet on each side. Good times

[sheephunter]

why'd they have a beaver in the fridge?