Asakiyume mita

Oh yeah! I used to live in Barrow, Alaska, which Wikipedia tells me is now officially known by its Inupiat name, Utqiaġvik. It was just for a couple of years when I was in high school, but they left an impression - and I still have the parka, fifteen years later. It was custom-made for me by Marita Aiken in the traditional Iñupiaq style, albeit with Thinsulate rather than fur lining. But it has a giant fur ruff around the hood that makes the most amazing wind barrier. And boy, do you need it in the Arctic - wind chills of -120 are not uncommon this time of year. As Brian put it when he came to visit me and meet my mother over Christmas (this was at the very start of our relationship, she lives in Anchorage again now), "I've never been anywhere where the weather has a lethality index before."