July 29 Voice Blog From The Arctic
Shannon and Peter | July 29, 2009
Click here to hear Peter’s voice blog from the the Nigu River
July 27 Voice Blog From The Arctic
Shannon and Peter | July 28, 2009
Click here to hear Shannon’s voice blog from the the Nigu River
No location update today.
July 26 Voice Blog From The Nigu River
Peter Polson | July 28, 2009
Click here to hear Peter’s voice blog from the headwaters of the Nigu River
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Headed out for the Western Arctic
Peter Polson | July 26, 2009
Here are two maps related to our 10 day trip this week into the Western Arctic: State of Alaska (click here) and more specifically the Western Arctic (click here) with our proposed route in red. If technology works on our side, there will be some satellite phone voice blogs on this site in the coming days from the [...]
The Final Stretch: Our Last Days in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Shannon Huffman Polson | July 24, 2009
To make it to the airstrip, we had to reford the Aichilik- though this time below the confluence with the Leffingwell Fork with higher water. We planned to make it to the landing strip a day early. My digestive track was upset- to say the least- so we determined if we arrived a day early [...]
The Leffingwell Fork
Shannon Huffman Polson | July 24, 2009
The first order of business the next morning- morning relating only to the time we had breakfast and started moving, not hours on the clock- was to ford the Aichilik. From there we would ascend the saddle crossing over the range to the Leffingwell Fork.
Though we had been hiking on the Aichilik for the past [...]
The Aichilik River
Shannon Huffman Polson | July 23, 2009
Rain and sleet pounding on our tent woke us close to noon. It fell for two hours. The lightweight Tarptent held up great; we stayed nestled in our sleeping bag and read and journaled.
After a breakfast of oatmeal, walnuts and raisins, we filtered more water, and headed down the drainage. The steep slopes into the [...]
Crossing an Arctic mountain range
Shannon Huffman Polson | July 23, 2009
In the middle of a deep sleep I woke suddenly to a grunting and snorting. We chose our Tarptent in part for weight and in part because we can see out through the mesh around the bottom. Peter was in between me and the grunting- I shook his shoulder. He was sound asleep. “Peter!” I [...]
Video of Porcupine Caribou Migration on the Jago River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Shannon and Peter | July 22, 2009
Some raw footage until we have time to put it together with other sound recordings- hope you will enjoy as much as we did!
Caribou and Arctic Time
Shannon Huffman Polson | July 21, 2009
My husband Peter, our friend Mark and I sat on the tundra, an odd assortment of three colorfully clad humans, dwarfed by the immensity of the world we had just entered. Not only dwarfed- the scale of the Arctic defies attempts to describe it. It utterly subsumes you. We sat on one side of the [...]