Playing guitar on our back porch	The view from inside our cabin	We spent the majority of the winter on snowmobiles	Danielle filling in a data sheet
Danielle is using the antenna to locate a radio-transmitting beaver.	This picture was taken right after a very thick fog had lifted	Kabetogama Lake after a snowfall	Using the antenna and telemetry receiver to pinpoint the location of a beaver
The beaver lodge in Deer Creek	Late evening on Kabetogama.	Danielle on her snowmobile	Enjoying the sunshine after checking the lodge at Long Slough.
The entrance to the lodge at Long Slough.	On this morning the temperature was close to -30 Celsius	On very cold mornings, there would be steam rising from the lodges.	Walking in to Long Slough was a welcome break from the snowmobiles
Having fun with my new GPS	A rocky ledge in Lost Bay	Sunset over Kabetogama.	The remains of a recent wolf kill
The driveway leading into Sandy Point on a moon-lit night	Looking west onto Kabetogama.	Our front yard, under a nearly full moon	A trail leading into Ekk Lake
Looking back into Lost Bay from the Ekk Lake trail.	We hiked in about 500m to search in a small pond for a lost beaver	Searching for lost beavers was one of the only activities that required snowshoes	Getting ready to hike up a small stream looking for lost beaver transmitters
We didn't find any missing beavers here either, but it was really fun hike up the stream	Sandy Point Lodge at dawn.	Heading south onto Kabetogama by way of the portage from Rainy Lake	Sunset over Kabetogama
Another view of the same sunset	Dawn, looking out from our backyard.	Probably the first "snow fort" I've made in 15 or 20 years!	The view from inside my "digloo"
Since I take most of the pictures, Danielle gets to have all the cool poses!	Rainy Lake is quite a bit bigger than Kabetogama, and on an overcast day, the "seam" between ice and sky is hardly visible.	A hoar frost overnight covered this Jack Pine	A frosted Jack Pine on Rainy Lake
The south side of Rainy Lake after a snowfall	Looking north into Kabetogama from Daley Bay.	Danielle is meeting up with me at Grassy Bay	This lodge is in a beaver pond in Daley Bay
One of the few snowy days we had	Full moon rising over Kabetogama	This was a few hours before the lunar eclipse	Yewbush Island, in the western end of Kabetogama
The eastern end of the park, i  Sand Point Lake.	Early morning sun through a frosted Birch	Looking north over Rainy Lake at the distant shore of Ontario.	A bare patch of ice on Rainy Lake.
We got to tag along with a bear researcher from the DNR	Dave and Bill weigh the bear	Just before putting the bear back in its den	The wetland we'd hiked up to get to the bear
The second (and much smaller) bear of the day.	Danielle is quite happy to be posing with a bear!	This bear was actually so small that both  Danielle and I could easily hold it right off the ground.	Returning to the snowmobile  after a full day of bear work.
Our cabin at Sandy Point, seen from the backyard	A dock on the west side of Sandy Point's property.	Earthspin, seen from the dock at Sandy Point	On one of our park-wide wolf surveys, we ran into this guy alone on the ice.
This was actually just the second time we'd seen any wolves all winter.	On the second half of our wolf survey I came across this freshly killed deer	It took almost 45 minutes before the wolves finally reappeared.	The other two continued to eat from the main carcass.
Despite us being out of view, the wolves were very  nervous and kept glancing back towards us	We stayed for about half an hour watching them	The whole thing was quite surreal	Shortly before we left, the third wolf came back down from the bank
Sunrise from our backyard.	Rainy Lake near Alder Creek.	After a few warm days near the end of the season, we had to make use of the excellent packing snow	Snow on a Balsam Poplar down the road from our cabin
Early morning after a snow near Sandy Point	The portage from Kabetogama to  Black Bay and Rainy Lake	Dark skies in Black Bay on one of our last days on the ice	All winter long we were visited by a resident fox who toured around the cabins