10 Photos: Winter Backcountry Adventure in Nunavik



Nunavik Parks is offering guided ski/snowshoe trips into Kuururjuaq — are you ready for adventure?

10 Photos from Nunavik’s Parc national Kuururjuaq

Credit: David Webb
Our first day out: skiing along the frozen Koroc River, in Nunavik’s Parc national Kuururjuaq.

Credit: David Webb

A cozy overnight in Qamanialuk Camp — hot tenting at its best.

Credit: David Webb

Our home for night-one: a warm Inuit Tent, remote in the wilderness of Nunavik. (It wasn’t so warm after the fire burned out.)

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Stopping for a rest, just above the spruce trees — and just before the wind hit!

Credit: David Webb

Ned Annanack and Jari Leduc, two of our guides from Kangiqsualujjuaq.

Credit: David Webb

Parc national Kuururjuaq expands for 4,461-sq-km in Nunavik’s northeast.

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A sunset ski across the expanding-and-contracting ice of the Koroc River.

Credit: David Webb

Local elder Susie Morgan jigs for Arctic char (which we would eat for lunch).

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We stumbled across some dogsledders on a multi-day trip from Kuujjuaq.

Credit: David Webb

Walking into a 60 km/h wind on “Caribou’s Big Hill,” deep in Kuururjuaq.

Contact Nunavik Parks for more information on guided trips into Parc national Kuururjuaq:  [email protected].

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