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Over my career I have led more than 30 snow expeditions, taught snow science in the classroom at the undergraduate and graduate level, and run more than a dozen field method classes all over the U.S. In the field with my students, we have worked shoulder-to-shoulder in snow pits measuring the density, grain size, and stratigraphy of the snow pack. In that setting I have tried to teach people how to read in the snow the story of the winter. Mos...

The history of the Arctic is rich, filled with heroic stories of exploration, multicultural interactions, and humans facing nature at its most extreme. The author collects some of the most memorable and moving of these stories and weaves them around his own story of a 2, 500-mile snowmobile expedition across Arctic Alaska and Canada.

There are some twenty-five words for 'snow' in the Inupiaq language. Each word denotes a different kind of snow - fresh powder snow, hard pack, soft snow, very wet snow, or just snow. This book teaches Arctic residents the importance of Arctic snow cover.

There are some twenty-five words for 'snow' in the Inupiaq language. Each word denotes a different kind of snow - fresh powder snow, hard pack, soft snow, very wet snow, or just snow. This book teaches Arctic residents the importance of Arctic snow cover.