We've got 2' of snow on the ground so far and the likelihood is for our usual heavy winter snowfall and -36C temps. I've been a busy boy plowing driveways for my neighbours, all of us with lengthy driveways to the gravel road that gets plowed by the highways contractor.
I'll be x-country skiing ere long on the lake and the bush trails in snowmobile tracks. A few years back I x-country skied 25 miles during our annual Dog Sled Mail Run Race. No one told me that it was the toughest leg of the trek which goes over several days, a lot of it uphill. I had extra gloves, one extra layer, water (which froze), chocolate but no means of making fire. Got caught in a blizzard on a summit and had I gone down, it would have been bad as no one had reported me on the course. Touch and go, but I actually beat two of the dog teams who came to grief on a couple of the creek crossings.
I spent two years stationed at CFB Churchill on the shore of Hudson Bay. I left there convinced that hell was not hot but COLD !!! It would kill you from hypothermia in 45 minutes if you went down Fighting in the arctic would be insane as it takes 60% of your energy and resources just to stay alive.
With winter in the Great White North, you have two choices - adapt and overcome or .....