Wolverine on the Utokok
Josh Ferris | May 15, 2010
Lying in northwestern Alaska, the Utukok River twists 200 miles through sharply folded green hills with rocky ridges that stretched east and west in long rows – Archimedes Ridge, Meat Mountain, Eskimo Hill. Once you’re on a ridge the hiking is easy.
One night I turned from Richard and Sharon, saying I would take another route [...]
Another surprise in the Western Arctic
Shannon Huffman Polson | August 10, 2009
(Post #2 from the Western Arctic trip. More posts coming over the next few days.)
Wolf howls woke us our second morning, which continued to astonish us as though they were the first we had heard. Before heading downriver in the Klepper, Peter and I wanted to explore more of the beautiful valley in which we [...]
The Final Stretch: Our Last Days in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Shannon Huffman Polson | July 24, 2009
To make it to the airstrip, we had to reford the Aichilik- though this time below the confluence with the Leffingwell Fork with higher water. We planned to make it to the landing strip a day early. My digestive track was upset- to say the least- so we determined if we arrived a day early [...]