Colville III- Alaskan Arctic River
RKahn | March 5, 2010
The gravel bar is a jumble of jagged clay rock; there are fossils everywhere, worms and seashells, fragments of petrified wood, fern leaves, an ancient world frozen in stone. I imagine myself walking in an ancient arctic rain forest. We climb up the cliff above our tents following game trails and eating blueberries. There are [...]
“Wilderness Music” an excerpt from Bill Sherwonit’s new book
Bill Sherwonit | February 18, 2010
Wilderness Music, excerpted from
Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness
©2010 by Bill Sherwonit
At age 50, nature writer and wilderness advocate Bill Sherwonit went on the longest backpack of his life: fifty miles in two weeks, across mostly untrailed wilderness in America’s remotest and arguably wildest parkland, Gates of the Arctic National Park and [...]
The Pik Dunes
RKahn | February 15, 2010
Rain all night…the clouds are down on the lake…It is a cold grey morning…Patches of blue sky breaking through until the days changes in character…Bright sun, light wind, blue sky…the grasses glowing yellow…Pools of water gathered in the folds of the dunes…the hum of the land is loud in my ears…There are no caribou to [...]
Colville I – Alaskan Arctic River
RKahn | February 4, 2010
by Richard Kahn
There are no geese on the Colville…But, there are loons, and rough legged hawks, and peregrine falcons. We sat beneath a cliff as the peregrine screeched at us from above. A second falcon joined the first and together they screamed at us, warning us away from their nest. As the second falcon landed [...]