Life & Death in the Arctic: A 36-Day Man / Dog Winter Expedition Across the Wild Ungava Peninsula

I don't want to die so I better bear down  and start setting up camp ASAP here cuz it's   getting ugly fast I'm in the absolute middle  of the ungava peninsula on the pong River in   a blizzard there's no way that Bear Grills or  LR or anybody that you see on these Survival   TV shows are even remotely as much danger as  I am right now I've checked out my lunches and   I've checked out how much food Buck has left  and it's not going to be enough to finish the   trip don't let satellite communication  equipment be a false sense of security   cuz the reality is that you're just using it  to tell people where they can find your body   if I don't get my shelter up tonight nobody's  going to be able to make it here in time to   save my before I freeze to death so what's my  communications equipment really good for in   this kind of weather I don't have a camera crew  with snowmobiles and helicopters on standby I'm   truly out there self- filming this just me and  my dog in the wilderness this right here what   you see in this documentary is is an extremely  real experience that is beyond anything you're   going to see on television nowadays and  I guarantee that from the remote eastern   coast of Nunavik Quebec I Jim be accompanied  by my loyal companion Buck a husky malamute   mix embarked on a 36-day self-propelled winter  crossing of the vast and wild Ungava Peninsula   our journey unfolded 760 Mi above the tree line  in the sparsely populated Arctic Wilderness of   nun navigating the treacherous terrain and  enduring Relentless blizzards we ventured   through the expansive and rugged landscape  forging a deep bond amidst the Solitude and challenges my journey began in the small  Inu Hamlet of kenua Quebec so here we are   in kanguk sujak I'm going to pinguo at Crater  and and uh I'm going to have about a month   long 370 km journey to get to Hudson's Bay  should be quite the adventure I'm going to   be filming the whole thing and uh yeah bring  you along for the trip I brought uh buck with   me here we're each going to have a sled and we  have about 370 km to cover before we get to a in Kangiqsujuaq I also watched a dog team and  explored a large iceberg that was frozen into   the ocean right in front of town this is a place  where Inuit people for many hundreds of years   have ventured under the sea ice of the Hudson  straight to look for muscles in the winter the   tides here are so vast that they rival those  of the Bay of fundies and I was able to join   a local Elder Lucassi to venture under the ice  and gather muscles so I'm just just here with   some students and uh Lucassi and I believe his  wife and um we're chiseling to go under the ice   to look for muscles I think uh Lucassi is the uh  the expert in this area so I think we're in good   hands because I hear you know it can be dangerous  but uh yeah the hole looks really deep I'm pretty   excited uh in the high The Croc it became like  this and the right it became like this weed to   find a space in there and that's why we have to  make a hole this part that where we could find   chiseling a hole we ventured into what seemed  like an ice cave as I listened to the echoing   words in Inuktitut and the dripping sounds of  seawater into the tidal pools on the ocean's   floor it doesn't have any Str but not alive we  came up up with many many muscles more than we   had hoped for what an amazing experience well  that concludes my muscle hunting experience   there's not too many places in the world where  people do this I I think this community and a   couple others on the Hudson straight are the only  place in the world where people go under the sea   ice to pick muscles so just amazing and this  is only the beginning of my trip I just want   to show you all the gear I have here a lot of  camera equipment solar charging stuff that's   my clothes bag over there my bath and endurance  good to minus 100 and here's all my my food is in   those bins I have these uh Eureka packs here to  carry personal items and kind of Hardware stuff   navigation equipment and um I got all my muscles  I had a couple things to do but now I'm cooking   them up for dinner and just steaming them with a  little tomato sauce and they're starting to smell   really good and actually they're absolutely  delicious eating them wrong too so let's [Music] go I'm Jim be and right now is the beginning  of my month-long 370 km expedition to cross   Nunavik on foot I'm going to pick up  the Povungnatuk River follow it to Lake   Allemand and when I hit that I'm basically  going to go east to the Chucko river cross   a couple rivers on the way and then straight  down to Hudson's Bay where I'll almost be in   a Akulivik by that time uh who knows what  I can run into I mean a lot of dangers out   there there's a chance I can see polar bears  but the weather is going to be by biggest [Music] concern [Music] after a few days there my dog  buck and I began our Expedition we started by   walking the distance of Wakheim Bay some 22 km  town is officially out of sight how it's been for   a while all right well thank you very much guys  I appreciate it well that was pretty amazing I   just met a guy I think his name was Anakudliq they  offered me for me to stay in their Shack which is   about another 7 km from here so if I'm lucky I'll  make it there and it means I can go a little later   because I don't have to set up my Camp they were  kind of looking at me weird like what is this guy doing so uh when I uh stop I throw on my big  jacket but I've worked up a lot of sweat I really   damp underneath need to change of clothes and and  it's almost dark and it would appear that cabin   is not quite as close as what the guy thought he  thought I'd be able to make it there before dark I   had to take a break cuz I was exhausted and choked  down some power bar um but uh I don't really want   to travel at night I'm probably going to have to  I think it's like another 4K away believe it or not here is the view from my window morning of  day two yesterday I made it about 22 or 23 km from   town now today it's about 10 km only to the next  cabin which is one that is owned by the park which   I'm allowed to use uh but the thing is that that's  10 km of consistent uphill looks like it goes like   this like this so up and then flat a bit up and  then flat a bit and you know although it's a lot   easier to pull toboggans or to pull pulks on this  hard pack snow it is not easy uh to pull them um uphill I was told that the wind gets really  strong here cuz it's just channeled through   this Valley and uh I noticed that they have  what seems to be ropes and anchors holding   down the roof but the Canada flag is still  holding strong despite the intense wind buck   and I began the long climb we had 2,000 ft to  ascend before reaching the top of the plateau   where pinguo at Crater is well we're on the uh  first large uphill and at this point we're going   to leave the ocean behind us uh the uphill at  least this part isn't too steep but it's just   kind of a long slog luckily there's a couple  flat parts that uh you can actually [Applause] rest we're finished the first big uphill jaunt  but uh the next one looks like it's a lot tougher   pretty flat here though and pretty hard pack so  let's hope the next one's not too bad [Music] it would appear that I have a ridiculous other  Hill to go up here man beautiful country but   it's scary how Little Shelter there is here  Buck takes every opportunity to have a little   nappy poo it was on the night of night two that  I experienced my first blizzard all my cameras   froze and I had little opportunity to film  anything as all I could just barely do was   figure out how to hack snow blocks out to make  a snow block wall so that I could get my tent   up it was a pretty scary situation and in the  end I figured well it probably can't get much   worse than this some of the local guys I'd spoken  to in town told me that the last person who tried   to attempt doing this made it to day two and  let off his emergency Beacon cuz he got lost   I sort of laughed at the time when I heard that  day two and there I was at the end of day two   in serious trouble already frost bitten all my  fingertips last night setting up and probably-   40 temperatures and howling wind the weather  got really nasty I didn't get uh you know got   really started really blowing hard and I didn't  get into uh my tent until about midnight if you   can believe that and I just set up my tent right  behind I just started taking my tent down and   that's the way I'm going for a long long many  number of days on this stretch of the trip we   were heading up an elevation significantly  and going for a place called Pingualuit Crater anyways a beautiful evening and I'm through  the big Hills thank you God I have about uh 450 or   480 km in a straight line to Akuivik which  is horrifically daunting that's in 25 days   17K a day average it started getting colder and  colder as we got further into the interior and   higher in elevation in fact it's often 10 or  20° colder up on the plateau near the crater   than it is on the Ocean by Kangiqsujuaq. Good boy  and for your wonderful work you will be rewarded   this is one of the most starkly beautiful places  I've ever been luckily the winds are down thank   God but burning stinging bitter cold as soon as  those winds pick up looks like I have some good   trail good hard packed snow in front of me  so I'm just going to keep pushing [Music] on I'm just uh packing up my stuff inside my tent  here I haven't been able to set my tent up as   high as it will go uh because of the high winds  here so I've just been setting it up a little bit   lower so there would be more space in here if  I had it set up at its its largest um this is   where I just dig out a little spot to do some  cooking and boiling with water I have this uh   sleeping bag here it's um to good till minus  40 by Western mountaineering and inside the   sleeping bag I keep um my wet clothes right  here these are the clothes I wear during the   day the other thing I also have in here is a  a sleeping bag Vapour Barrier and this little   thing here will add another 10° heat to your  sleeping bag so my sleeping bags down bags   good till - 40 and this will make it good to  - 50 I hadn't been using it I use it last last   night and I can tell it really makes a big  difference so if I make it 15K I can stay in   the cabin tonight but it's already pretty  late uh so I'll be arriving there at dark   probably but uh if I really push I can probably  break camp and make it to the cabin um cuz it's   really nice to have a warm place obviously than  setting up uh in The Frigid howling [Music] winds this part of the trip was grueling if  only because the majority of it was uphill   there were long flat stretches and even some  long gradual downhills which were just magical   also the route was marked by Stone cairn that  had been piled up by people that were hired by   the province of Quebec to Mark a trail into the  crater you see the crater had recently become   part of a Quebec Park and at Great expense to  try to drive tourism dollars to the area the   province of Quebec had even built very nice  cabins along the Route roughly every 30 km   to entice people into taking guided ski trips  into the crater took me about 4 hours to break   Camp which is a little slow I was up at about  7:30 and uh anyways uh you know made it about   a kilometer feeling pretty good about the time  I was hard pressed Towing all the weight I had   to get into these cabins they're really meant  for ski trips where each cabin is pre-stocked   as people travel towards the crater taking a  quick break here not too long so I don't cool   down I have probably about 7 or 8K to go to get  to the cabin looks like I'll be getting there   at dark but uh just pushing on these days are  long I mean 15K especially with all the hills   and all the We Them hauling is not easy but uh  not a lot of time to do anything but make break   camp and haul so far it's been a pretty amazing  trip but definitely a challenging one that's for sure here we go crossing a frozen lake about the  last 3K stretch of a 20 km track today pretty   exhausting looks like that weather did indeed blow  in now it's not nasty but it's just a white out   and um I could see the cabin uh now I can't see  anything I punched the location into my uh Garmin   it's going to tell me which way to oh wait a  minute I think I might oh yeah look it just   cleared up so I'm I'm perfectly on the right track  Buck is is seeming to be ready to call it a day here so it appears this snow is uh really  making it harder to pull the the loads it's   not hard packed anymore and I'm just feeling  like there's no way I can make 15K a day to   finish this trip before my Provisions run  out I can stretch it a little bit but and   and maybe uh live off the land with some some  hunting and some fishing of ptarmigan and and   lake trout but I just feel like uh I'm going to  have to dump some weight or something I got so   much camera gear I can't dump that um but maybe  some other stuff I'm going to go through it and   just see what I can get rid of because I'm just  simply not going to make it with this much it's   just as simp simple as that it appears there's  I was expecting one cabin it looks like there's   more than one I know there's a weather station  here but anyways I assume that must be it it   took me several days to reach pinguo crater  a remote meteor impact site that lies in the   wilderness of Arctic Quebec it's one of the  most remote meteor impact sites in the world   and holds the world's second purest water at its  base pretty dark by the time I got there and the   weather wasn't good but I found the cabin and  made myself at home well here we are at Lac La   Flamm I got here and as I you saw there several  buildings and I had to go and check each one and   try lighting the fire because not all of them  had oil left in the tanks of course there's   no wood here so that's all oil burning stoves  here's the oil stove looks like she's cooking   okay soon as I bring the cameras in they fog  up and ice up yeah hopefully it warms up I'm   happy that today I didn't push it and start  sweating um cuz a lot of the time that's what   I did have done to try to get to these cabins  on time and just get really yucky and wet afterwards the next morning after waking up at  the cabins near the crater I heard the hum of   a snowmobile and looked out the window I was  surprised that I had visitors they were the   first people I'd seen in about 13 days and it  was the same group of students that I'd gone   under the sea ice with they were led by some of  the locals I'd already met in town as well well   it is day 133 today I'm still here in the cabin  near Pingualuit Crater and I decided to take an   extra day because I sorted through a bunch of my  stuff and I came up with an entire bag of stuff   that I just don't need I thought I was going  to need it earlier on the trip but I can get   rid of so I traded uh um some stuff for a pair  of seal skin Ms because my hands were freezing   and um I'm gonna kind of give some of the other  stuff away this whole bag of stuff uh I don't need   you know th this long rope um a few other things  some spike Nails I was going to use to in case I   ran into low snow condition to Anchor my tent um  unfortunately I'm going to have to uh trade this   bag too um it's a really good bag but I still  have one last night I made an igloo which was a   really cool experience northern lights danc in the  sky as we put this Igloo together and I got some   amazing shots even though I got frostbite on my  thumb doing it and the following day we did some   ice fishing out of the igloo too it was pretty  awesome well here we are in the igloo I helped   build the other day and uh this Igloo actually  comes equipped with a couple ice fishing holes   that's built on the lake ice so I've just been  doing a little jigging here I'm just using a   William spoon and I've managed to pull in a small  lake trout and a landlocked Arctic char which is   pretty exciting so there's the uh land locked  Char you can eat these raw I had some raw the   other day it was actually quite good and a small  lake trout that's going to be bucks dinner tonight   I think that one will be my dinner and Charlie's  actually telling me that if it's minus 30 outside   that it'll warm it up in here to about zero so  a full 30° the fro SP I had in my hands um got   really bad and last night I could barely sleep  cuz it was just throbbing cuz I stayed out to   get pictures of them building this Igloo it was  really cool though surprisingly warm when we went   inside it they didn't even finish patching all  the all the holes but it was still really warm   uh today we're going to go up to Pingualuit Crater  unfortunately it's not the clearest day so I'm not   going to get the best view of it so it should be  pretty cool and then uh first thing tomorrow I'm   going to push on it was pretty neat to hang out  with him near the crater for a couple of days   because I couldn't travel anyways the weather was  just not good we ended up going up to the rim of   the crater and walking way down inside of it we  chiseled a hole through the 7t thick ice and drank   the pure water straight out of Lake pingala this  is the uh purest water or second purest water in   the world um first purest water it's debatable  but we're going to go with first the Fountain   of Youth those guy are like 100 Year years old we  heard more amazing facts about Pingualuit Crater   including that it's 1.8 million years old and is  the second most intact meteor impact site in the   world from the top of the rim all the way to the  bottom of the lake it's about the same height as   the CN Tower and the lake itself is 850 ft  deep making it one of the deepest lakes in   North America well uh I'm supposed to leave this  morning and uh I'm still still at the camp um by   pinga crater so I have a cabin here but um I woke  up to a blizzard as you can see behind me that's   the route I was supposed to be traveling on and  I would be heading into 100 km an hour winds -30   so probably about - 45 -50 with the wind chill  and just gusting snow and horrific visibility   but uh so I decided that uh it would probably be  sport line suicidal to leave today which means I   have to spend another day here but you know in  the north it's not the time that dictates your   travel and safety in the weather so I played in  smart and I didn't leave today but uh look at this so uh yeah you can see I would be traveling  this way this is you howling gusting wind a this   and uh today my face is already freezing  today is not the kind of day you want to be TR oh here's a here's a message I just got uh  here it says this is from uh Tori it says how's   the food situation are you skin and bone yet I had  a dream you came back thin but ripped and had a six-pack well I don't know about that I still  think I got a bit of a one pack going but uh   this is where we are here here's the crater I  went to yesterday and here is the Povungnatuk   river here where I'm going to go there's a  small cabin there too but that'll be the last   chance I have to uh stay in the cabin on the  Povungnatuk I had to travel over a 100 miles   going down river to reach Lac Al and now I'm  at this gorgeous Canyon on the Povungnatuk   and I'm going to be following following  this for over a week there's going to be   no more big mountains but this might be the  most challenging and remote part of the trip yet all right that's one way  to get your stuff downhill use gravity wow what a cool Canyon this is  here on the Panget tuck so beautiful   and those drifts they look nice  I'm a little concerned they're   going to be hard to pull through but  they're not going to last for long so okay okay come on I'm just coming to uh the end of the day of travel  day 15 on the Povungnatuk and I got to say today   is has to have been my favorite day of travel the  river is just awesome I was thinking about just   bee-lining it du West to Akulivik from Pingualuit  but I'm so glad I decided to come to the   Povungnatuk because the river is wicked there's  just canyons and it's just such a a gorgeous sight   to see and the traveling on it's way easier um a  lot of drifts and soft patches of snow and hard   patches but overall just way easier than going  up and down the mountains uh just it's flat and   well in fact the whole thing going downhill cuz  I'm going with the current and uh I'm I I'll be   able to uh get fish much easier cuz I'm right on  the river and I'll be able to get ice which takes   less stove gas than to melt snow um so that's a  quick way to get water too and preserve some gas so well it is day 16 of my trip uh I got a a  weather report from my brother that says uh   lots of snow today and tomorrow is supposed to  be a blizzard tomorrow's Sunday so tomorrow's   blizzard heading on into Monday um so I might  have to stay held up in my tent for 2 days um   held down by weather again after just uh  waiting out of storm this wide out today   is actually giving me vertigo so on top of not  being able to see uh the drifts I'm stepping   on I can't get a depth perception on the ground  I'm looking at and it's making me dizzy so I'm   trying to look at the bottom of my ski pole and  stuff as I walk to try to compensate but a lot   of stretches of the river are so wind whipped  it's just nice smooth ice really pretty right   there I could see down the ice is about 3 or  4 ft thick and uh it's easy traveling across   the ice cuz my sled pulls quite easy and with  the pulls I can almost use them as an extra   set of legs to get traction and just kind of  myself along so I don't slip so it works really [Music] well well I've cut over to the  side of the river uh and it looks looks   like it's a little more hard packed here  so I'm just praying that I'll get a good   stretch of hard pack cuz when it's deep  like that man does ever take a lot out   of you during this 100 km stretch is where  I started to run into some pretty serious   issues things aren't going so well it's  just dumping snow still a complete wide out look it looks like we're almost pushing  for blizzard conditions here I'm hoping that   blizzard that's supposed to come tomorrow  hasn't come early but it's just scary how   fast things can turn around here yesterday have  a perfect day you know no fear in the world to   uh the next thing you know being scared for  your life and in a survival situation out   here um the conditions in the weather are  just unpredictable and very very very very [Music] harsh I got my tent kind of halfway up I  was hoping to have the door facing   away from the wind but I put it there  and I was just running out of time so   I just did it two more steaks I got to  throw everything inside uh hopefully   we'll be good and I'll be okay with it  a wall but it's getting nasty out here quickly just here inside my tent because uh there's  a blizzard going on outside so I can't travel   today I'm just have having to stay put um  because uh there's gusts to 90 km an hour   winds outside and if I'm heading straight  into it I'm just going to freeze my butt off   blowing snow you name it just not the kind  of day that you can really travel today but   luckily my tent's holding up really well I  woke up and there's a snow drift in in here   because I accidentally left the zipper open a  crack at the bottom and just there's just the   wind's so strong and there's that much blowing  snow that I woke up to having a freaking snow   drift in my tent it's like unbelievable the snow  will get in even the tiniest crack just melting   some snow there for water and I just have a  few things hung up along the ridge pole here   my down parka it's making myself a little  hot chocolate have a mountainous for lunch   boil that have a coffee maybe a cappuccino  really get fancy out here you know what I mean got pretty much the end of day 17 left  the tent once all day to take a dump it was   just terrifying and miserable outside so I  came back in and the same thing with buck   so I just stayed huddled up in my sleeping bag  and uh and tried to do a little reading I just   WRA the bottom of my sleeping bag there in  uh it's a regular garbage bag and that way   um up by the door where some snow sometimes  drifts in and stuff it keeps it more or less dry what what's over there probably just a  fox but uh I'm worried it could be a wolf and   wolves would probably want to eat Buck given the  chance so I'm just a little bit uh nervous about that well uh last night in the middle of the night  Buck just started barking wildly and I figured   it was probably just a fox and uh I was right  um there's a bunch of fox tracks all around   the campsite it's a good thing I have a bin  with my food in and I kept it lashed down so   the wind wouldn't blow the lid off so animals  couldn't get at it but yeah Fox track's just   circling the tent here so obviously Buck was  barking at a curious little fox wondering if   he could get some food and it seemed like  he was trying to charge out of the tent so   I woke up and yelled and made a lot of noise  and that probably scared it away good boy good boy my uh tent Peg had buried it and  then a huge drift drifted way over it [Music] day 19 hopeing to make it uh 15 clicks now the  river starts to get uh pretty wild there's a   tons of Rapids mark it starts to right now it's  only a 3% gradient but the gradient picks up   substantially and I don't know if I'm going  to be able to walk across the Rapids if the   ice will be unstable if there's Open Water if  there's waterfalls uh I might have to I guess   kind of Portage around it um I hope that  doesn't mean going up on top of the canyon   cuz that would suck doable but uh you know  very very time consuming uh but that's not   going to be till probably a day or two from now  remember this morning when uh Buck was outside   the tent I said i' heard him barking well buck  doesn't bark for no reason he scared off a bear   before and I was worried that it might be  a wolf well it appears less than a km from   where we camped uh there are wolf prints here  where it's crossed the river and it might have   been looking down at Buck uh from the ridge  definitely not a fox I'll tell you that much [Music] good boy good boy good boy Buck good boy very  beautiful evening here on the Povungnatuk varying   conditions um sometimes the snow shoes were  sinking into deep sometimes it's hard packed   sometimes I have to go back and help buck up  the really steep drifts and then in between   them is really soft so it's kind of hard going  and I found myself zigzagging a lot like oh here   maybe's better here's maybe better and I think  that's really cutting into my time so I was   feeling pretty good about today and then I looked  at my GPS and realized uh I'd only done 8 and 1 12   km now that's in a straight line so probably more  like 10 because we're on a river and it winds but   uh that is concerning and depressing cuz I've been  working hard and I need to be doing 15 out here   I just don't know what to do I you know I guess  the only answer is get up at 6:00 a.m. every day   start walking by 9:00 and get an extra 3 hours  in because the day is almost over and I haven't   done 15 again I guess just with the conditions  and with how much weight I'm pulling there's   just not enough time well that is it ladies and  gentlemen I am done for today not quite sure how   far I went but ah just considering the pain I'd  say probably about 17K I'll check on my garment   when I get into my tent but beautiful sunset here  and I'm just going to set up right in the middle   of the pavit tuck River you know I kind of had  a feeling like something was looking at us all   day and it's funny uh when Buck was outside of the  tent and He barked this morning and then uh I saw   the wolf Prince crossing the river first thing  I heard was a a raven and uh Ravens and wolves   can communicate nobody really knows how why is  because uh they can communicate because uh you   know the Raven will will help the wolf find its  food of course the Raven gets the scraps it's a   recent thing that people have found that uh Ravens  are actually smarter than wolves believe it or not   and they think that's true for all corvids  which is the the Ravens crows and even Blue   Jays so you have some pretty intelligent animals  considering we all know wolves are smart as hell   and then Ravens are even smarter dig down into  the snow here I'm going do a little sideways line   like this I've almost made like a te you can see I  just totally have buried it sideways like that out there well I think that about does it for that  side of the tent uh now I go around I do that to   all the sides get in there get the stove fired up  get a tarp laid out there is no floor in this tent   get my ground pads put out get comfy go to sleep  wake up take it down do everything else again tomorrow Buck had an absolutely epic day yesterday  does not look like he's ready to give her today day 20 now today I got word over my inreach  from my brother that there's supposed to be a   blizzard hitting I don't really see it right now I  see the haze in the sky it looks beautiful uh but   it's supposed to be starting around the afternoon  which is going to be here any minute so hopefully   it misses me that uh report is more for um  uh Donaldson and Kangiqsujuaq Donaldson's a   mine um which is a good distance away from me and  Kanguksujuaq on the coast so that'd be awesome if   I missed it but basically I'm trying to outrun a  blizzard today anyways that way uh over here looks   terrifying well indeed it does look like blizzard  conditions are building I had to throw my sweater   on so do I set up camp or do I keep pushing I  don't want to be stuck out here in a blizzard   if it really starts blowing I've worked up some  sweat and that's a good way to die so I'm just   just going to make Camp right here I'm actually  in the middle of a rapid what you could run in a   canoe in the summer right now um so OB obviously  there's a lot of ice anyways I better get to it   okay I got my tent up looks like just in the nick  of time too I didn't want to have the door facing   the wind because uh I'm just shoveling a little  extra snow around the outside see I didn't want   to have the door facing the wind because then as  soon as I open the door there's like a snow drift   in my tent immediately but that's how I put it on  by mistake and it was just getting too windy to   even flip it around so now I'm just going to crawl  in there and uh hope that uh the storm doesn't get   too bad you see at this point winter was starting  to turn into the spring and in the Arctic that   means weather systems Collide and you get some  serious blizzards when it's a blizzard you can't   go anywhere and I just stay inside my tent hoping  that my tent would stay intact and wouldn't blow   over while I read a book in all I had over for  9 days where I couldn't travel an unlucky amount   of Blizzard days throughout that time period  so it looks like I just got my tent up in time   uh the storm's gotten worse I used my pulks to uh  block some of the wind because wasn't enough snow   here to make a snow block wall and the storm was  closing in on me so I had to make uh the call do I   just go ahead and set up my tent without the wall  and I did that and so hopefully that's the right decision anyways going to put up my ground pad get changed   get my clothes uh hanging to  dry a little I am freaking [Music] exhausted look like I think I have a little bit of a  dilemma and it's the old should I stay or   should I go um I'm melting my snow I'm sort of  slowly getting prepared to go Bucks not doing   anything again and I'm kind of thinking well  you know maybe this doesn't technically count   as a blizzard maybe it's close you know maybe  I can still travel in this so maybe I should   have another Peak outside and see what  that looks like and just kind of go from there look at all the snow that just blew  in when I did that I think that counts as   a blizzard winds gusting to 70 KMS an hour  dumping snow can't see I really hope this   break soon probably not a good idea to leave  the tent and start going in that kind of weather I just went outside to have a I was holding it off   as long as possible but since I  have a little bit of a lactose problem uh it creeped up on me I sh my pants  um I good bit of *hit dumped in my pants and   all the just froze to me immediately  so right now I have smeared on my leg   Frozen and like snowman worth of snow blew  in my tent and I'm freezing my ass off the   wind's still strong at least the uh clouds  have kind of gone and it's not also snowing   it's just strong wind now but uh easily 70  km an hour wind so that was just relally unpleasant day 22 today yesterday  uh the weather was terrible today   it seems a little better well definitely  a lot better A lot less windy sure doesn't   seem like a peachy day though but  I'm going to try to get 15 20K behind me all packed up takes me forever to get going  just about to leave the last thing I do is I go to   tighten my boot and it freaking breaks and I guess  it's just so cold as I pulled it just snapped so   anyways I I don't know what the hell I'm going to  do I'm going to try to figure something out though   I think I can just tuck that strap in there  and pull it tight like that and still get it   reasonably tight actually that's actually I think  that's actually better than how it was [Music] before good boy as you can see here the  Povungnatuk River has really uh   widened up I was uh actually just  going through a whitewater section   and and the ice conditions are so good I  actually walked down a [Music] waterfall [Music] well this just goes to show you how fast the  weather can move in at a nice Tailwind it was   pretty good pretty nice day really and then  uh started getting later the weather started   getting kind of crappy I said okay time to make  Camp then all of a sudden uh we're borderline   moving into a blizzard and I'm trying to get  snow block wall because there's no way I'm   going to be able to get my tent up uh with this  wind luckily the the snow here is thick and hard   packed enough that I can actually make some  blocks but uh right now we're looking at 70   km an hour wind probably gusting to 90 um  and so I better get this up fast and get   some shelter because uh uh can get scary out here  pretty quick I'll tell you that much if I don't   get my shelter up tonight nobody's going to be  able to make it here in time to save my before I   freeze to death so what's my communications  equipment really good for in this kind of weather that's got to be uh that's got to be  gusting to 90 or over 90 km an hour right now   you know what uh this is no joke out  here this isn't just hey let's build   an igloo in the backyard uh hey let's  practice some primitive traps this is   real [ __ ] if I don't get this wall up  and my tent up out here there's a good   chance I die I'm in the absolute middle of  the anava peninsula on the petuk river in a blizzard what the hell day is it 203 well it's the next day day 23 it's about  12:30 and I am still in my tent um you saw me   almost complete my snow block wall yesterday  evening well after that the blizzard just got   out of control raging uh the wind completely  changed directions and uh it was Pitch Black   and so I tried to put my tent up but the wall  wasn't helping and as I was putting it up my   tent just blew away so I had to extend the wall  taking blocks from the wall I'd already built and   cutting new ones and extended the wall to over  20 ft long to block the wind that then started   coming from the south and I was able to get my  tent up not perfectly it was still a struggle uh   but I managed to get in it took me almost 4 hours  to set up camp um by the time I finished eating   and stuff it was almost 3:00 in the morning just  to give you an idea of uh how you know exhausted   I was too after walking 20K um and then today uh  it's just gotten worse the wind's coming from uh   the West the Northwest now it's gusting to over  80 km an hour my tent's shaking and because I   couldn't do the best job at putting it up I'm  a little worried that uh my anchors are going   to come loose loose and my tent's going to blow  away so it's a little bit scary but apparently   um you know this whole region is just getting  hammered with uh with a really low pressure   system I don't know when it's going to clear  up but uh there's no way I can travel today I   mean this is the worst weather I've seen yet I'm  using my shovel there to try to help support the wall got myself a coffee going  here I'm pretty much completely   out of creamer and sugar and uh I was  out of hot chocolate several days ago   so disaster there well fortunately  the next day the weather broke and I continued morning day 24 seems the uh  wind has died down substantially outside   I'm going to be able to travel today so now  it's just uh eat and get the hell out of here I'm hoping that the wind manage to pack the snow pretty  good cuz if it's really L uh loose snow it's going to make it really hard to travel [Music] Buck seems to have somehow smash  the uh nail on his dclaw uh on his front   uh leg seems to be bleeding quite a bit  um but he doesn't really seem to care and   seems the bleeding is slowed down so  I might just keep my eye on it and uh   make sure I treat it tonight but it looks  like uh the nail back where the you know   the nerve and the Flesh in the nail is  has has split that's what's causing the bleeding the Povungnatuk is an ancient travel  route um maybe to cross the Ungava peninsula   from um you know from Hudson straight to  Hudson's Bay or vice versa you know these   are definitely man-made tent Rings the one  there's four in a row the one immediately   behind me is quite large it looked like uh  not just a regular tent ring where you see   just rocks in a circle to hold down a tent but  almost like rocks were stacked two or three high   in a circle the caches were essentially large  piles of rock it had been used to store meat   and things they couldn't carry with them and  food that they'd leave there for themselves   when they'd return it was pretty amazing to see  these undocumented historic iCal sites that were   likely as much as 400 years old or even more in  some cases pretty neat just to see that ancient   campsite there some other people um traveling  the same route as me uh probably uh you know 3   400 years ago even so neat to see that and um I'm  crossing this big lake here and that's where I'm headed looks like there could be some uh  not so nice weather rolling in here day 2   four yeah it looks like potentially not the best  weather doesn't look horrific but doesn't look good I should be able to make it another 5K before  the sun goes down but uh it's really turned into   a beautiful evening it's just gorgeous out right  now this uh water Lake like section of the river   here is a a neat change and I'm really enjoying  it it's the night of day 24 um I didn't feel like   building a snow block wall tonight and the winds  are really ripping so I crossed the entire Lake   thinking I could set up um behind uh or I guess in  the Lee of kind of like a really big hill thinking   that would protect the wind and um it was a lot  of effort more than I thought to cross the lake   and I was thinking I should have just set up in  the wind and built a snow block wall and been good   and where I was it looked like there was another  ancient Camp it would have been cool to Camp there   but um as I got across the the the hill was kind  of blocking the wind not totally but it was doing   a pretty good job and I went up the hill of subst  anal way and thinking it would flatten out but it   it didn't so there's a huge drift there and what I  end up doing is just digging a huge flat spot out   and setting up kind of on the side of a hill but  because there's so much snow I could flatten it   out and it's actually a really cool campsite and  uh I set my tent up really well I it could deal   with any kind of wind at this point so in the end  it worked out I've uh I've checked out my lunches   and I've checked out how much food Buck has left  and it's not going to be enough to finish the trip   so I have to uh uh catch a few fish um to be able  to sustain me and buck day 25 and I decided um   that I better do a little ice fishing I've just  come out from where I camped last night I camped   on Shore and basically I'm just going to shovel  the snow away and start giving her I don't know   might take an hour depending on how thick the ice  is looking forward to hopefully hooking into some   fish here would be a big morale booster I was  realizing that all the days I had to take off   where I couldn't travel were really cutting into  my food supply I needed to catch some fish and fast I really hope there's some fish down  here I'm starting to get way down there and   I'm wondering if there's any end inside or if  this just goes to China hopefully not too much   more left I chiseled a hole what I thought was  a reasonable distance out from Shore knowing   that the lake trout and landlock Arctic char  are typically in about 10 to 15t deep water   at that time of year I thought I'd picked a good  spot and when I finally made it through the ice yeah I realized that it was over 70 ft deep under  the hole meaning that I'd be hard pressed to catch   any fish I jigged and I jigged and I jigged for  hours until I got deeply cold and caught nothing   I don't know how much longer I should really  be trying here maybe I'll give it another 20   minutes tops and then I'm just going to have to  pack up and leave with my tail between my legs   this sucks though all this work hope so high and  just sitting here catching nothing I've wasted   the entire day haven't caught any fish I'll  be lucky if I make it 5K today and I've taken   another gouge off of my um fuel resources and my  food resources and Bucks too so total failure um   but I'm going to have to try again I mean I  just don't have enough food to make it all   the way there so um it's really relying on me  catching some fish and just what a flop so I'm   just really disappointed I guess you got to just  stay positive and some food will come you know   maybe I'll be able to hunt a Tagan or something  today you never know so I'm just going to try to   stay positive but uh this little event has not  proved fruitful and it took me almost 10 days   to reach Lac Allemand when it really should have  only taken me four or five the hills there are   starting to get pretty Rocky and that's kind  of my concern that when I'm heading Overland   I'm going to head into rocks traveling into a  total white out here on Day 26 I'm about 5k to   Lac Alam man and uh I I saw what looked like a  blizzard coming in earlier and it's definitely   getting more blizzard like right now I'm walking  in a total white out it's very very hard to   navigate I can't see the Horizon I'm just kind of  following the shoreline of a lake like section of   the pavit tuck and trying to uh Point myself at  uh rocks that are in my direction cuz the rocks   are darker than the snow and that's the only  thing that shows up but uh the question is do I   keep pushing or do I stop up and set up right now  cuz there's definitely one hell of a blizzard on   the way it would appear the blizzard is starting  here Day 26 slowly moved in I can't see a thing   and I just can't travel anymore I only made it  10K today which kind of sucks but I don't want   to die so I better bear down and start setting  up camp ASAP here cuz it's getting ugly [Music] fast it it looks like something real special is  brewing here the winds haven't picked up but I I   wouldn't doubt if we had uh 900 km an hour gust  looking by the way this is going so I just I did   a really good job the wind was pretty strong and  I was putting my tent up so I had to build a wall   but I'm going to want one anyways uh with this  wind just for the extra support and I did a really   good job of anchoring um my tent down piling  snow around uh the outside of it cuz there's   a little FLA you can fold out and then pile snow  on top so I did a lot of that and I really got   my uh tent buttoned down as best I can and built  that wall day 27 about 3: in the afternoon and I   am still getting hammered by a severe blizzard in  the night it just started raging it was kind of   terrifying because my tent was shaking and I was  the wind shifted I set my wall up kind of blocking   a Southwest wind but the wind shifted to would  be coming pretty much directly from the south   and I was just getting hit directly on the side  of my tent by 90 km an hour if not more gusts so   I'm just having to hunker down in my tent uh I'm  dreading the idea of having to leave to go to the   washroom or anything like that uh buck doesn't  seem to want to move either snow rapidly builds up here I got to knock it off every once in a  while day 28 the wind's still kind of strong it   it seems to have dissipated to maybe uh 40 km an  hour with the odd 70 km hour gust maybe sustained   50 but uh last night got scary the wind was just  howling at times it sounded like a freight train   my tent was flapping I couldn't sleep just cuz I  was terrified my tent was going to possibly blow   away but also just cuz of the sound of the tent  and there is like a 4T drift piled up in front of   my tent door I don't even know how I'm going  to get out of here I'm going to have to pack   everything out and basically somehow try to shovel  my way out of my own tent it's just nuts oh my Lord this whole thing from here all the way  up to here is all a massive snow drift the   snow drift goes above the level of my zipper  I'm not even going to be able to get out of my   my tent to see what kind of a day it is well I'm  going to go uh try to dig out of my tent [Music] now oh it's starting to get better uh but just  blizzard conditions well I shovelled my way out   and decided that I needed to take the time on  this day where I couldn't travel to try to get   some more food not far away from the tent I  spent some time to build another strong snow   block wall to protect me from the blistering winds  after the wall was finished I began using my ice   chisel or tok as it's called in the NCT tuck to  Chisel through the 7t deep lake ice in search of fish yeah 6 715 2 hours well despite the horrific weather uh I've  been busy today I just about froze my ass off   but I built another snow block wall that's  over 6 ft tall with massive blocks because   it's been gusting to 90 all day and I'm hoping  before it gets dark I'll have the opportunity   to some catch some fish so you know I got all  my stuff ready and as I got out of the tent I   was just like this is insane there's no way I can  travel today without dying wow this uh snow block   wall I built here is just doing an amazing job  at Sheltering me the wind is still really strong   and just bitterly cold like if you don't have  a balaclava on if if your face is exposed for   10 minutes guaranteed you get frostbite  and uh I've actually just been chiseling   here pretty pretty hard and I'm actually able  to take my park off when I'm behind this wall   which is awesome but as soon as I step out um  I'm reminded quickly about how important it   is and you can see how tall I built it too  I also tried fishing again but had no luck   which was pretty devastating to say the least  and it was always a question whether or not I   should take the time and energy to fish or use  that time and energy just to get closer here's   what uh 90 to 100 km hour gust will do to your  tent poles and sustained wind gusts actually   permanently bent the thick strong pole of my snow  tracker minimalist canvas tent well fortunately   the next day the weather broke and I continued  but I didn't make it far I finally reached Lac   Allemand and it took me about 9 days to travel  there from a large Canyon on the Povungnatuk river day 31 finally a great day if I could do  20K a day I could be in a Akulivik in 7 days I   only have five lunches left uh and um I  have four four Mountain houses a day um   Buck is running low on food and my lunches are  basically just Mammoth Weight Gainer which is   great but not enough of it and ready crisp  bacon and I don't think that is enough um   I'm just so gassed right now uh and so I  crossed Lac Allemand and then my plan was   to bee-line um to Akulivik but the scenery  is beautiful but it is incredibly rugged   and Incredibly mountainous and just Boulders  and rocks everywhere I have to zigzag through   everything um I'm just going uphill downhill  all the time it's super tricky uh tough to use   a compass cuz you're always walking off your  bearing um so I I'm just thinking that I'm   going to need to facilitate a resupply if I'm  going to finish this trip without starving to death well after traveling through some incredibly  rugged mountainous Boulder ridden landscape   today that uh you know kind of got me down  thinking oh my God is the rest of the way   to a cost going to be like this cuz I'm going to  need another freaking month but it looks like it   not flattened out but a little bit not so rugged  I got a beautiful downhill stretch and you know   we got some big Hills still more rolling not  you know not so intensely rugged you know maybe   it is from here it doesn't look as bad though  and uh not so many Boulders and rocks so thank   God because that was beginning to really scare  me that's the way I'm going right now downhill baby so I believe it is day 33 or 34 just really crappy  weather today it's actually sleeting um and then   snowing and then sleeting and we got some strong  winds 80 km an hour gusts easily um some of them   I I have my tent set up the winds coming pretty  much from the West Northwest so I'm taking it   mostly um on the you know the back panel here  of the tent which is the smallest kind of area   it it can take the wind but a lot of it's coming  in from the side here too so sometimes I get um   this thing this wall here really pushing in so  unfortunately um I can't travel yet again today   I think this is going to be8 or nine days now um  that I've had to stay put which is a lot it's uh   it's more than I'd plan for and my provision  Visions are running quite low buck and I split   four pieces of bacon and a mountain house I gave  him about half and that's all we're going to eat   for today I'm looking kind of grody well the  nose of mine just looks like a snake shedding   its skin I was already hungry as the lunches I  packed just weren't enough calories and I pushed   on battling hunger every day that is saltwater  right there that's Hudson's Bay so my new line   is going to come like this through this Lake and  then across over here is the e cotat river and   then right there I will hit saltwater and I will  cross the enaba peninsula four more days till I   reach Hudson's Bay I'm hoping I can maybe do it  in three but I got some really rugged terrain to   go through Buck has three scoops of first mate  High Performance Food a day for the next 2 days   and then and one can of first make dog food for  the following two days that's not really enough   food for him um I'm on uh about three Mountain  houses a day uh two servings of Mammoth weight   gainer powder and one pack of ready crisp bacon  that's not really enough for me so it's going to   be a hungry March but I think it's [Music] doable  when I came out of my tent the next day I saw the   snow had blown off or had been melted off a lot of  the ridge tops extremely warm day I think 34 here   um very very warm uh the snow is really sticky  it's got to be jeez you know it's got to be uh   probably about four or five degrees out the wind  it's a blasting wind I don't even feel cold at   all I can see some of the hills the snow is melted  and I'm worried that that's going to make for some   tough hauling over rocks and stuff and the snow's  going to be sticky I was already hungry as the   lunches I packed just weren't enough calories and  I pushed on battling hungry every day I knew that   at this point if I traveled 21 km a day and cut  my dinners and my breakfast in half that I would   be able to make it to Hudson Bay I had to ration  Buck food as well after leaving Lac alaman was the   most concerning part of the trip because I had  to travel through a mountain range where there   was very very deep snow at one point I turned  around and I looked at Buck walking Towing his   sled but his entire body was underneath the light  fluffy snow which I sunk in almost up to my waist   lots more exposed rocks with this warm weather  and you know it's looking like it's going to   rain tonight too I'm going to have to make some  serious detours so uh my P don't get chewed up   trying to haul my heavily Laden Sledge in this  deep snow was incredibly punishing and I made   terrible time despite exerting a massive massive  amount of effort on what was reduced rations and   very little food to eat for lunch just had a huge  detour to go way around the mountain and now I'm   trying to make it up the super super steep Bank  on the corac river way behind schedule pissed off I managed to do 20 on the minimum amount of  calories I have which makes me feel really good   at one point I just uh I I I just had to stop  I thought I can't do the extra five I'm going   to have to do 15 or 17 around there and I didn't  have any food left any ration food left for the   day so I just took a break sat down on some  water took a breather and that gave me the   energy to bang off the rest so I just feel awesome  that I managed to get this done and I have three   days days left to get to the coast uh but I'm  thinking maybe I can do it in two if I can do   20K a day in this uh country this is home for  the night when you're camping like this um in   the winter time you can kind of Camp everywhere  cuz you always have a water source in the snow um   speaking of water my my boots are pretty wet I'm  going to have to burn a lot of fuel drying them   off that's one thing I luckily have lots of fuel  not enough food my boot liners were soaked and   I had to find different ways to dry them out  in the tent but I was still making it [Music] happen getting a late start today I'm about uh  43 kilm from mosquito Bay which is saltwater it's   part of Hudson's Bay hopefully I'll be done in 2  days and meet a pick up there for a 40K snowmobile   ride back to Akulivik definitely I thought it  was supposed to be below freezing yesterday was   quite warm and it seems warm today I mean I'm  going to have to take off my long johns before   I start moving um my food supply is running quite  short but I had a big hunk of butter and I cut up   hunks of butter and put it into my mountainous  this morning I think that'll give me a little   bit of extra kick to make it a little further  well the snow is not hard packed anymore far   from it and I'm sinking in every step which  is cutting into my time Terrain is extremely   freaking rugged had to make a huge detour to  bypass a mountain and now I'm going up the   side of a canyon which is like so freaking hard  and buck can't make it I got to go back and get Buck come on okay okay come on come on come on buck buck come on come on okay so day I don't know 37 36 I just don't  really have a clue at this point I've been out   here for quite some time anyways beautiful day um  the snow is still going to be soft which is going   to make uh snowshoes necessary of course and it's  going to make going a little bit slower but I am   18 km from Hudson's Bay from achieving my goal um  I'm going to the mouth of the Aktotak river uh at   the head of mosquito Bay and when I reach there I  will have crossed the Ungava peninsula from Wake   Bay on Hudson straight to Mosquito Bay at Hudson's  Bay and um it's going to feel really good good to   get there once I get there it'll probably be late  in the evening tonight and about noon tomorrow I'm   going to have a pickup from a Akulivik and uh  I'm going to get a snowmobile ride the last 40   clicks back to the community where I'm going to  stay at a hotel for a few nights and check out   town but uh yeah just getting packed up I got to  get away by latest noon it takes me about 3 and 1   half 4 hours to uh 3 or 4 hours to break Camp uh  depending on um how much uh excitement goes into   it if I play the William to orature in my head as  nerdy as that might sound sometimes I get going faster as usual time to get going feeling kind  of good today though I got to say um since I'm   getting close to Hudson Bay one of the things I  got to have at the ready is my gun the uh polar   bears are probably you know out on Hudson  Bay uh hunting for seals they eat seal in   the winter and there's no seals uh closer  Inland but you never know so I keep my gun   easily accessible I have a strap I haven't  been using it cuz I just been carrying it   on my pulk I've decided that you know Buck  just doesn't have enough food in him uh to   make it today so I'm going to feed him um my  last bit of dog food this is um first mate   wild salmon formula hopefully this will give  him the extra energy to make that push um to   make it to salt water today man this stuff  actually smells kind of good now it is uh   suitable for human consumption and I'm really  low on calories too so maybe I should give it a try wow I can't believe how good that tastes   unbelievable Buck my have to  go hungry I'm not even kidding amazing M first mate wild salmon formula says  definitely suitable for human consumption you   might be laughing at me that I'm eating dog  food but I swear to God it's delicious wow   I don't even have to force that down that's great  unbelievable I'm shocked that it's so good but he   really needs that because I need a really good day  out of him and that'll give him some really good energy I think I see a ptarmigan up  there it's the first one I've seen   this whole trip I really really  need the food I need the energy   to make it to meet my pickup um  so I'm going to try to kill it how in the fu did I miss that unbelievable  it is a warm one today again uh still below   freezing but uh you know the snow's really  soft on this uh huge Lake I'm crossing I've   already done about 5k so 13k to go to  salt water and uh I think the scenery   is going to level up off a bit after I  cross out of this Lake going to have a   big hill to go up but um I'm feeling kind  of confident that I should be able to make it what a beautiful day for my last day hopefully  my last day if I can make it this 18K just had a   chance chance to put a little meat on the table  and shoot a couple carigans but I didn't want   to shoot them on the ground so I waited till  they took flight and somehow I just totally   missed uh my ski goggles or whatever I didn't  have the gun position right on my face I just   totally blew it so that's really upsetting  to walk 400 miles get one chance and blow it [Music] I was only about 5 km at this point from  Hudson Bay and I needed to make it there   in order to meet my snowmobile pickup the next  morning at this point I was completely out of   food in an effort to save time and to avoid  traveling at night I gambled with a a shorter   but more dangerous route over Boulders and  rocks but the difficult path got bucks stuck   at the bottom of a huge Ridge with his Sledge  hung up on Boulders pushing me to have to turn   around and walk back down to help him forcing  me to do the Trek twice if I couldn't get Buck   quickly up the ridge I would have to track  over dangerous Boulder fields in the dark or   miss the snowmobile pickup at this point hunger  was completely zapping my energy just coming up   this Ridge last day pushing hard to make it to  Hudson's Bay oh my God he did it I just coming   up this huge Ridge come on Buck and he's going  back to get buck and I can't believe he made   it up that hill that's unreal he's been having  a rough day so I'm just so proud of him right now good boy good boy unbelievable Buck good  job buddy good job as I crested the last Ridge   I looked out to see these mountains dissipate and  flat navigable beautiful country lay ahead of me   I could see some river valleys that would  be challenging to cross and some lakes and   the Setting Sun put a beautiful golden orange Hue  across the land there was little wind and probably   only about 5° below freezing or so it was perfect  holy uh I'm horribly back lit right now now but   if you see behind me that is the Aktoktat river  the second Ridge is the opposite side I thought   we had two ridges to cross it was only one at  the bottom of this Ridge is the Akoktat river   and the mouth is very close I'm about 3 and 1 12  km away from saltwater from crossing the Ungava   peninsula right now thank God I thought there  was two ridges there's only one um I just like   hauled across all kinds of Boulders and um I just  don't even care anymore I just the fastest way   is [Music] best I descended the gently sloping  Mountain down to the flats well folks I did it   I crossed the Ungava peninsula in the wintertime  behind me is Hudson's Bay I feel like relieved   and also it's surreal to be walking at the  beginning and putting an ocean behind my back   and now have an ocean in front of me freaking  crazy but I just walked across the Ungava Peninsula oh wow what a trip and that is Hudson's Bay started at Wakheam Bay on Hudson straight  and ended at mosquito Bay on Hudson Bay I don't   even know how long it took me but I think maybe  37 36 or 37 days what a trip did uh 18K today   the way the crow flies but man was it ever a  tough day just crossing mountains and ridges   and slushy lakes and everything but uh yeah I  did it feels good me and buck me and buck did   it it's kind of cool to think that is the end  of my trail and uh it's started all the way   over on Hudson straight what do you think Buck  we did it it's over the Trip's done yay we did it you really are a good dog you walked across  the Ungava peninsula you did looking at maps   and seeing these wild places that still exist  in Northern Canada and just something about   these places calls me to them just the  the spirit of Adventure wanting to see   what's around the next corner I don't know  what it is but I feel like it's definitely   genetic in me because it's always something  I felt that I want to be Beyond where there   are people I want to be where there's  no civilization that's further north   than me and this was an amazing warmup  let me tell you or practice for winning alone

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