For rent: one crescent-shaped berg conveniently trapped by shifty polar ice cap. Ideal for ski-mountaineer camp or couple looking for romantic 500-mile commute to Nova Scotia.Brad Barlage (below) and Andrew McLean snapped up this Arctic bungalow on Nunavut's mountainous Baffin Island (between Northwest Territories and Greenland), clipped into NASA-designed steerable kites, and navigated a series of frozen fjords-some nine miles wide-hauling 150-pound sleds full of ski-mountaineering gear behind them.

The payoff? An endless network of 3,000- to 5,000-foot chutes, every one of them in the 40- to 50-degree range and full of silky, freeze-dried, boot-deep powder. "Of the top 10 couloirs I've ever skied," says McLean, who's skied hundreds, "10 of them are now on Baffin."