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 [...]
To the Arctic
Shannon Huffman Polson | 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 [...]
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)