ᕿᒻᒥᖅ - qimmiq - dog

This weekend was the Toonik Tyme festival in Iqaluit. This festival celebrates the "warmth" of spring and the start of long, sunny days. "Warmth" is defined as -20C in this context. The festival included igloo building, tea and bannock contests,craft sale, seal skinning, and dog sled racing. Unfortunately we had to work through the entire festival. However, Josh was able to get out to watch the dog sled race. So, we'll count our blessings that one of us was able to see one thing! 

Teams of 7 or 8 dogs raced for 30 km

The qamutik is flipped over so the dogs don't run off with it

Winner of the race with his seal skin hat, jacket, mitts and kamiks

Josh and the winning dogs