The Ultima Thule

Josh Ferris | May 15, 2010

Lying in northwestern Alaska, the Utukok River twists 200 miles through sharply folded green hills with rocky ridges that stretched east and west in long rows – Archimedes Ridge, Meat Mountain, Eskimo Hill. Once you’re on a ridge the hiking is easy. One night I turned from Richard and Sharon, saying I would take another [...]

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Tags: adventure, Alaska, Arctic, conservation, moose, National, public lands, tundra, Utokok, Utokok River, wilderness, wolverine

Jeff Fair | May 6, 2010

Angels in the Mist, by Jeff Fair. From Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge “The Wild Geese,” from The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes.    Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear, in the ancient faith: what we [...]

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Tags: Alaska, Arctic, Arctic fox, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Arctic Terns, Beaufort Sea, Black Brant, Brooks Range, Cackling Goose, Canning River, caribou, Common Eiders, cygnets, geese, glaucous gulls, grizzly, Harlequin ducks, Inupiat, King Eiders, Lapland Longspurs, Long-tailed Duck, loons, Lowell Sumner, muskox, Northern Shovelers, Pacific Loon, Pacific Loons, peregrine falcon, Pintails, Polar Bears, Purple Saxifrage, Red-throated Loons, Robinson Jeffers, Sadlerochits, short-eared owls, Spectacled Eiders, tundra swans, Wolves

RKahn | May 1, 2010

July 26 It is hot and sunny. There is the relentless sound of the river flowing green and white as it moves north. The sunrise was pink and grey with the river shinning white and blue. The sky was filled with soft pink clouds and the mountains glowed pink in the east. Hidden within the [...]

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Tags: adventure, Alaska, Arctic, caribou, Gates of the Arctic National Park, Killik River, National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska, rapids