Sunday, July 09, 2006


Wonder Lake in Denali NP.

Mama grizzly with 2 cubs on a ridge in Denali NP.

Caribou antlers exhibiting the "double shovel" at Toklat River in Denali NP.

Solstice jamming in the midnight sun at the big Ferry 4th of July Bash. We did an opening bluegrass hoedown with Trent demonstrating why he's a most dangerous banjo picker on Stairway to Heaven & Strawberry Fields Forever.

Ptarmigan...chicken ?!?

Michael's accomodations at C-Camp in Denali.

Oops...I am not a perigacial tor. Here I am going into Denali.

Michael at Denali NP entrance.

Finger Mountain...a periglacial tor.

Trent at Finger Mountain.

The Midnight Sun at the Arctic Circle.

In the Antigun Pass.

Grizzly repelent.

Lake in Gates of the Arctic.

The Brooks Range.

Driving to the Brooks Range.

River at Gates of the Arctic NP.

Crossing the pipeline.

The Brooks Range over the pipeline.

An Arctic River.

The Brooks Range in the distance.

Hiking at the edge of ANWR.

The road between ANWR & Gates of the Arctic NP.

Saturday, July 08, 2006



Squeezing the tundra.

Hiking the tundra.

The tundra...

Close up to the caribou.

Trent of the caribou.

Eating lunch with the oilfield crew...they have hotdogs in the Arctic.

The oilfield town of Deadhorse.

We made it....the top of Alaska...Prudhoe Bay.

The truck after 400+ miles of muddy road.

Herd of caribou galloping along.

Muskox grazing on the tundra.

A muskox...COOL !!!

Headwaters of the Antigun River.

Snow in the Antigun Pass of the Brooks Range.

Long road going NORTH !!!

The pipeline just north of Coldfoot.

Sign showing how Coldfoot got its name.

Frozen Foot Cafe in Coldfoot.

Arriving in Coldfoot in a cold rain.

Friday, July 07, 2006


Crossing the Arctic Circle.

Camping on the tundra just below the Arctic Circle

Trent at 2 AM on the road up to Prudhoe Bay....a long dirt road

Beginning the Dalton Highway at 1 AM...very cloudy but still light

The greeter at the airport in Anchorage.