We had another blizzard the Saturday before Easter weekend. It was a good one! There were 90 km/hour winds mixed with snow . . .and we couldn't see the house next door. Here is a picture of what it looked like out our window:
A couple of days later I went for a dog sled ride with a fellow teacher. The weather was a lot more co-operative! The dogs are the same ones from a previous post. They have 9 dogs up here. I sat in the kamatik (sled) while Bill managed the dogs. We had a bit of an adventure in the beginning when the dogs took off in the wrong direction! When sled dogs take off (and these ones are only about 9 months old) it is hard to stop them!! We headed straight into town up and down over some hills. If we had of gone another 30 feet, the sled I was in would have been toppled over and I would have been dragged over some rock mounds. Luckily, Bill was able to stop them just in time and I hopped out! His wife followed us with the snowmobile and we were able to tie the dogs up to it and steer them in the right direction. Apparently, the dogs have never done that before, but it was kind of exciting and no harm was done. Once we got back on track, we headed out on the ice and enjoyed a beautiful evening ride. Here are a couple of pics getting set up and one out on the ice:
On Easter Monday, the community had a small fishing event. I received a phone call from another teacher telling me to go check it out. So, I got bundled up and headed out on the ice. There was a good number of locals out there jigging for "ugly fish." They really were pretty ugly!! One of our Inuktitut teachers gave me her jigging contraption to try it out for myself. I spent a good 10 minutes trying to catch one without success. I then walked around to see what everyone else had caught. I'm still not quite sure why they catch these fish as most of the people said that they don't eat them!? Some said that they boil the meat. Personally, I think they are just too ugly to eat! You be the judge:
One of our grade 8 students was out hunting with his grandfather last week and shot a muskox! They were north of here in the Pelly Bay region. The hide and skull were out drying at his grandparents house and they let us take some pictures. It was such a beautiful day, so I took a walk around town and took some more pictures.
Our school's maintenance guy shot 8 caribou last week. These are some of the skins.
These are a couple of views from up on the hill behind our house. Too bad there are no windows from the front of our house!!
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