Our Alaskan Winter continues the story of husband and wife Bud and
Connie Helmericks' adventures in the Arctic. That winter they lived a
nomadic life with the Eskimos, hunting caribou inland and then sea
mammals out on the ice in the spring. When spring again came, they
migrated eastward with the Eskimo in their big skin boat with their
canoe towed. From the Natives, they learned ice fishing for seals, how
to track down polar bears, how to sled for provisions. They had
fashioned runners for the small canoe, and when they left their friends,
they continued east, paddling, sailing and sometimes pulling it over
pack ice as they made their way east to the Mackenzie River delta in
Canada. There they ended their odyssey with a flight to Edmonton, Canada
in September.