May 1, 2023 – Setting out from his home in Hoarfrost River, located off of McLeod Bay on the East Arm of the Great Slave Lake, David Olesen reflects in his book Kinds of Winter on how his isolated living becomes even more singularly secluded over the course of four extended mushing trips. Reconstructing these four annual trips from the early 2000s — one to the South, the next to the East, and followed by trips North and West — Olesen’s formidable mosaic of journal entries, photographs, and retrospective writing chronicles living an experience that for most of us will remain unimaginable….