In the lavvu, we met up with others who had been dog sledding and light hunting.
The Northern Lights Resort and Spa near the city of Whitehorse has a new seven-day Best of Yukon's Aurora trip, including five guided light hunts with photography tuition and a dog-sledding trip, plus optional activities from ice fishing to snowmobiling.
Water, fire and light, hunting and survival tools, food and cooking equipment, medical supplies, maps, communications, clothing, shelter, weaponry, miscellaneous useful items and the bag itself are the major categories for consideration, which should give you an idea of how much you have to buy, pack and think about.
The package includes B&B at the Thon Hotel, transfers and flights from Gatwick for £1,399pp, plus a Northern Lights hunt, a boat trip to some Arctic islands and a NYE's dinner with fireworks.
Departure dates: 27 Dec- 3 Jan (extended break including new year's eve gala dinner, Super Jeep safari and Northern Lights hunt); 24 and 27 January; 21 and 24 February, 24 March and 25 and 28 April.
I had to sit around playing solitaire on the computer for nearly two hours as my husband fiddled with lighting, hunted for the camera cord, persuaded his computer to recognize a smart card reader, persuaded the smart card reader to recognize the digital image, fiddled with the editing software to create a JPEG file and transferred the image from his computer to mine via a home network.
Place eggs near or under black lights, or hunt them down using a flashlight with a black light lightbulb.
Some light bargain-hunting in technology stocks after last week's sell-off also helped.
Mr Laurier, who rode around with half a dozen travelling workers, paints a hellish picture of sales reps riffling through papers while stuck in traffic jams; or parked in a side street, frantically plugging laptops into the cigarette lighter to hunt for clients' details.In the academic world, the mobile office is a little-researched phenomenon.
"George Washington bred the dog," he said, "crossing hounds he imported from England with French staghounds to create a dog that would be faster and lighter for hunting on open ground.
