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 [...]
Voice blog #2 from the Aichilik River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Peter Polson | July 11, 2009
Click here to listen to the voice blog via satellite phone (online posting delayed due to technical difficulties)
Voice blog #1 from the Aichilik River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Shannon Huffman Polson | July 9, 2009
Click here to listen to the voice blog via satellite phone (online posting delayed due to technical difficulties)
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Shannon Huffman Polson | June 27, 2009
Our first leg of the Ultima Thule is two weeks hiking in the north-east Arctic, beginning in the foothills of the Romanzov Mountains along the Aichilik River and hiking south to the Upper Sheenjek River, designated in 1980 as a Wild River. We hope we might see some of the caribou migration, though it’s always [...]