Blair Braverman

So winter is coming fast.

It's already getting colder.

It's going to be a lot harder to do things when it's pitch black and 40 below.

They're going to need their clothing.

And Ada is not doing any of the things that she had originally been doing and that she'd come there to do.

In fact, it's already starting to snow.

Winter is coming so fast that the snowdrifts are building up.

They're having to change their shelters around.

They go ahead and they build walls for the snow house and they move in.

It's pretty big.

It's like 14 feet by 24 feet.

And they do this really cute thing where they build like a tunnel through the snow coming out of the snow house with little rooms branching off it so that each sled dog has their own little room.

It's like a little ranch house for sled dogs.

Exactly.

And then when they light the stove in the snow house, it warms up the rooms for the sled dogs, too.

Sled dogs can generally tolerate a lot of cold.

They're adapted to it.

But in order to be comfortable in the deep cold, they need a lot of calories, like three times as many calories.

So this keeps the dogs cozy.

But more importantly, it's a way of saving calories.