The Ultima Thule

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

Day one in the Western Arctic, Nigu River

August 9th, 2009

Day one in the Western Arctic, Nigu River

Shannon Huffman Polson | August 9, 2009

(Post #1 from the Western Arctic trip. More posts coming over the next few days.)
It was, perhaps, a good thing that our first Arctic trip of the summer taught us that plans are only something from which one deviates. We would return to that lesson on this trip.

Smoke from distant forest fires swallowed the drone [...]