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Before going into camp you will, accordingly, take off 

 your outer coat, turn it inside out and scrape off the 

 frost. Or else you may just pull it off as you go in and 

 leave it outside the door so that the hoar frost will never 

 have a chance to thaw. Next morning you slip it on as 

 you go out and, although there may be hoar frost in it, 

 it does not annoy you, for it is in the form of dry 

 powder. 



The only kind of hoar frost that becomes disagreeable 

 is what you allow to melt either in the house or else on 

 your body when the weather gets warm. Warm weather 

 is, therefore, something to watch and guard against care- 

 fully. Changes of temperature are occasionally rapid. 

 You may have forty below zero when you start out in 

 the morning and hoar frost will gather on the inside of 

 your outer coat during the forenoon. In the afternoon it 

 may cloud up, the temperature rising to twenty above 

 zero. Just as soon as you notice the increasing warmth 

 of the air, you must take off your outer coat and either 

 put it on the sled where it will remain unthawed, or else 

 turn it inside out, shake it and carefully remove all hoar 

 frost. 



When you describe this technique of keeping skin 

 clothes dry, it sounds a little complicated, but in actual 

 practice you get so used to it that it is no more bother 

 than brushing a dark "business" suit to keep dust and 

 fuzz from showing. 



I had heard and rend about Eskimo snowhouses and 

 was eager to sec one. On this trip, however, Roxy never 

 built a real snowhousc, for he considered it more con- 

 venient tc carry a square piece of canvas to use along with 

 a snow wall. We built each evening a circular wall about 

 six feet high and then spread over it our piece of canvas. 



