What excerpt from the passage reveals the location of the story?

day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-traveled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. it was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. it was nine o'clock. there was no sun nor hint of sun, though there was not a cloud in the sky.

a. day had broken cold and gray
b. the man turned aside from the main yukon trail
c. it was nine o'clock
d. though there was not a cloud in the sky