Too cold to build igloos in Rankin Inlet Last Updated Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:56:40 RANKIN INLET, NUNAVUT - While Torontonians shiver in what they think is cold, a Rankin Inlet man has cancelled an igloo building camp because of the extreme temperatures.
Noah Tiktak works with young people in Rankin Inlet, teaching them traditional Inuit skills. He said he's been forced to postpone an annual igloo building camp, because of the cold.
"The youth need to learn about snow," Tiktak said. "But it's too cold right now."
The extreme cold weather, which broke records last week, makes all the snow too hard to work with, he said.
Elsewhere, Baker Lake broke a 50-year temperature record earlier in the month. Some communities have been feeling the sting of –60 windchills and colder.
The frigid weather is also affecting Rankin Inlet's hunters.
The Hunters and Trappers Organization in Rankin Inlet has postponed a community hunt for caribou to help single mothers and elders who can't get out to hunt for themselves.
"It's really too cold for hunters to spend a long time out on the land," said Bobby Suluk. "We want to make sure that they come home safe instead of being stranded out in the land having broken Ski-Doos."
Suluk says the hunters will meet next week to decide if they should risk going out, or wait for warmer weather. You can join Unsolved Mysteries and post your own mysteries or
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