Yukon: a territory of 482.443 square kilometers and only 43.964 inhabitants (2022).
As soon as the winter arrives the lanscapes of Yukon are changing: Matthew Grogono who lives at the Great Slave Lake is now walking on the frozen lake: to protect his boathouse against the cold the doors are thick and he uses doorknobs for cold rooms.
Normand Leroux (Fishing Adventures) is a fishing guide and he enjoys ice-fishing (this day he has fished salmons).
Although the temperatures are very low , the children of the primary school , well dreessed, have a 10 minutes playtime in the snow.
Yukon is a nice place for the mushers: we meet Thomas Verin and Christelle Houdry who have come from the French Alps to Yukon with their 12 husky. Thomas tells the story of the 440 Husky dogs sent in 1914 by the Canadian government to help the French Army in the Vosges. Thomas and Christelle are training for the Yukon Quest , a dog sled race.
Yukon is also a interesting place for fat bike driving: the bikers enjoys driving up and down in the snowy paths.
Alain Duguay and Graham Pollock practice acrobatic skiing; there are many spaces with great slopes an springboard for the training of the Yukon team.
Claude Vallier, an French expratriate is organizing ski mountaineering in the White Pass area: he and his visitors enjoy climbing the snowy mountains and later going down the slopes.
Yukon is also known for the wildlife and the furs: Jacques Jobin is a licensed trapper who usually look for marten, wolverine or foxes furs, but this day he has trapped a wolf (600 dollars worth).
The people of First Nations used to wear furs in winter: Hovak Johnston, the seamstress of a First Nation is making winter clothers with the natural furs (as their ancestors did it) .
Inb the winter the are ice roads : Jamie Hines is in charge of the maintenance of an ice road: he has to test the thickness of the ice over before allowing the use of the ice road.
In some town the people enjoy building ice castles or artificial ice towers for the climbing.
Finally Yellowknife is a beautiful for observing the aurora borealis: Keating Smith is an aurora borealis chaser who spends hpours on a frozen lae to take pictures of the northern lights.
I enjoyed the encounters of Jérôme with Emylie T. M (the snow shoes tour, the snow kiting), with Nicolas ( the radio studio), with Mark Penner (the snow kiting instructor), with Jake Paleczny and Maria Hallock (Yukon Wildlife Preserve), with Andrew Umbrich (the hot springs), with Simon D'Amours , with Roch Boivin and his wife Catherine (the trapper couple) and with Gérard Cruchon in the Tombstone Park: very nice encounters with very kind Yukon men and women.