The ice is several meters thick during leaf-bare. (Very thick.) seals make breathing holes in the ice, and polar bears wait there. Often with cubs.

Here are prey items, from least rare to most rare:

-Mice
-Voles
-Lemmings
-Small birds
-Minks
-Snow Hares
-Small fish
-Seal pups
-Bear cubs
-Carcasses

These cats are scavengers! Some animals like foxes put away prey they don't finish! If that happens, you can bet these cats will take that left over prey.

Despite the variety in prey, prey is scarce most of the year. You will not be catching five birds in leaf-bare.

These cats have a very acute sense of hearing, smelling, and seeing. They have to, so they can see through the constant mist and fog, and hear and scent prey before other predators do.

Predators include: (most to least common)

-Foxes
-Wolves
-Sled dogs/ feral dogs
-Eskimoes
-Birds of prey
-Bears
-Orcas

The land is barren most of the year! They don't know very many types of flowers. They have thistles, dandelion puffs, and other unknown flowers. Most of their trees are pine trees, and they only see those in green leaf, on land.

When the ice starts to melt, the water watchers let the Clan know. When it is time for the Great Swim, kits, elders, apprentices, and the medicine cats are coated with a layer of blubber which helps them float better, and keeps them from freezing to death in the icy waters.

Blubber is used sparingly, as it is very difficult to get.

When the ice melts, and it is time to swim, it isn't uncommon for bears and orcas to follow the cats and try to pick them off. Many cats are lost to orcas and bears while swimming.

These cats get lots of bad weather here. Sleet, hail, snow, fog, blizzards, all of that. Bad weather is very common.

When they get to land, they make a temporary camp and bask in the warmth that will only last about two moons.

The land is prosperous, but very dangerous, and they are almost always eager to get back onto the ice.

There are no penguins here! This is the North Pole!

Put "hail and sleet hurt my feet" if you read this. I won't accept if you don't.

It isn't uncommon for kits to die. Many kits don't survive the cold when they are newborns. By the ones who live are very strong... usually.

If you have a litter of three, you are more likely to end up with two, or even one.

Hunters are gone for several days, getting food and small chunks of ice to melt for water. These cats can go a long time without food or water, about five sunrises. More if they ate a large meal last.

The camp is different every year. Snow and small ice bits cover the floes, creating enough material for a ragged circle and some dens.

Apprentices and warriors sleep together. If there is only one queen in the nursery, she will sleep in the warriors den.

Seals disguise their breathing holes. It isn't uncommon for a cat to fall through and drown in the freezing water.

Cats can get lost on the ice. Every snowdrift looks the same, and you must have a very good memory to find the camp after leaving to make dirt or something else.

Rogues are very uncommon as well. Kittypets are almost nonexistent. They would freeze in two minutes. Rogues must have a very warm, secure den to survive, and must have been living there for quite some time to be completely adapted to the weather and cold.

Sickness is very rare. These cats have great immune systems. But in the small chance that some cat were to get sick, medicine cats use frozen herbs. They collect herbs in the warm season, then leave them in freezing water overnight.

The herbs will be slightly wilted and don't work very well, but they serve their purpose.

There aren't very many bugs- mostly just moths in green leaf

If cats are lucky, they may find ice-fishing Eskimoes to scavenge from.

That's all for now- try to survive!