The holiday season is over and most trappers in North America have already harvested the bulk of their skins for the season. Cold weather has arrived, and up in northern areas, snow makes traveling easier once the waterways are frozen and snow covers rocks and stumps in remote landscapes. For roadside trappers, snow seldom makes things easier, and for water trappers, snow — and especially ice — make everything more difficult. Whatever animals are left to catch have beautiful fur, and this is the time of quality — not quantity.
For this season, catching less is no drama because as we enter the year
