The Ultima Thule

Journeys in America’s Northernmost Lands: a web anthology of the Alaskan Arctic

To the Arctic

July 20th, 2009

To the Arctic

| July 20, 2009

Someone once said that “a plan is something you deviate from.” And we all know things rarely work out as planned- especially in the wilderness. This Arctic trip was no exception. Our planned route was to land on the Aichilik at the coastal plains and hike south, upriver, to the continental divide, cross it and [...]