The Ultima Thule

Shannon Huffman Polson | July 24, 2009

The first order of business the next morning- morning relating only to the time we had breakfast and started moving, not hours on the clock- was to ford the Aichilik. From there we would ascend the saddle crossing over the range to the Leffingwell Fork. Though we had been hiking on the Aichilik for the [...]

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Tags: adventure, Alaska, Arctic, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, backpacking, conservation, ground squirrel, Harlequin ducks, Leffenwell Fork, preservation, sandpiper, wilderness

Peter Polson | July 11, 2009

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Tags: Aichilik River, Alaska, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, caribou migration, Leffenwell Fork, Wolves