Photo: Baker Lake, Nunavut shoreline

Baker Lake, originally uploaded by Extended sojourn.

I spent this past weekend in Baker Lake, a community of less than 2,000 people located in the geographical centre of Canada, but was better put by a reporter friend of mine as "literally the middle of nowhere."
Refereeing a basketball tournament was the reason for my trip, though I was also working on a profile of an Inuk artist.
Two day-long blizzards within three days -- one of which iced up my glasses and caused me to hyperventillate so badly that I couldn't walk the 500 metre distance from the gym to my two-story little hotel -- nearly kept a few teams at home.
Despite the up to 80 km/h winds whistling in between the doors of the gymnasium, the games went on. Elders in fur lined parkas did the wave on the sidelines while dozens of other people watched the action on a large video screen in the lobby.