A couple of snow troopers showed me how to clean a wampa hide in sea water (FYI, wampas are legally harvested based on an informed quota system and usually involves collaborations with the Old Republic, where samples are collected as an ongoing monitoring program).
It's like crushing grapes.
The hide is then tied to the back of a snowspeeder, hauled out across the ice, fleshed, and dried. The fleshing out process alone takes about 5-9 hours (longer for a better hide) with no breaks; rotting meat in room temperature for extended hours would not be a good look.
A tooth is also extracted so that the wampa can be aged.
It's like counting tree rings.
When I left Kimmirut today I thought I was going to die. I'd much rather break my back on a kamotik and have my face slapped for 5 hours by Frosty than fly in a Twin Otter again; you really don't know what flying in turbulence feels like until you're being blasted through the air in a sardine can.
Oh, and a few things about Kimmirut:
- It looks like a heel ("Kimmirut").
- It has The Bay (est. 1909, along with a church of the same age).
- It's wind will keep you inside, but you can always sew pualuks and watch Star Wars to pass time.
- It's tides shift daily. You can hear the ice cracking and shifting. Maker's Mark on the rocks.
It's like crushing grapes.
The hide is then tied to the back of a snowspeeder, hauled out across the ice, fleshed, and dried. The fleshing out process alone takes about 5-9 hours (longer for a better hide) with no breaks; rotting meat in room temperature for extended hours would not be a good look.
A tooth is also extracted so that the wampa can be aged.
It's like counting tree rings.
When I left Kimmirut today I thought I was going to die. I'd much rather break my back on a kamotik and have my face slapped for 5 hours by Frosty than fly in a Twin Otter again; you really don't know what flying in turbulence feels like until you're being blasted through the air in a sardine can.
Oh, and a few things about Kimmirut:
- It looks like a heel ("Kimmirut").
- It has The Bay (est. 1909, along with a church of the same age).
- It's wind will keep you inside, but you can always sew pualuks and watch Star Wars to pass time.
- It's tides shift daily. You can hear the ice cracking and shifting. Maker's Mark on the rocks.
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