Bits and odds and a quick trip to Tuktoyaktuk

The strong winds this year make for all sorts of delicate snow structures / fins, which are excellent examples of cornice formation, sans mountains. This one was about 60 cms long and only a few mm thick

Just a chunk of river ice sticking up in the snow on the Mackenzie

There is a gulley that leads to the top of the Caribou Hills right near the junction of the ice road to Alkavik. It has been decent skiing both this year and last. It seems to get enough wind to compact the snow into a bit of a base as opposed to depth hoar right to the ground. Close enough to do after work.

Inuvik recently had the Arctic Image Festival, and I ended up taking both the guest photographers up the ice road on the Mackenzie River to Tuk, quick trip after the festival and return in the dark. Funny thing was we stopped by the boat and by consequence the churches (Anglican, log structure, and Catholic) and got invited in to have dinner with the nuns and the visiting bishop,lol. Afterwards took some quick pix around town -which is a necessary condition of having 3 photographers in a truck. Stopped on the ice road just before town for some views of the Pingos - hydrolaccolith - Ibyuk and Split in the National Landmark - note the high mark tracks from snowmobiles. Ibyuk is the highest Pingo in Canada -use the search bar for my other posts on it.