In my previous post I wrote about the first six days of our recent ten-day trip above the Arctic Circle to visit Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve and Kobuk Valley National Park. That first portion of our Alaskan adventure found us kayaking down the Noatak River for around 80 miles through the …
Visiting national park numbers 54 and 55 would be the most adventurous excursion that we had undertaken since we left on this trip over two years ago. Granted, our backcountry trip into Denali last year was certainly Out There, as we camped for four days near a glacier about 20 miles into the park. But …
Fred’s Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve Read More »
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When we started planning our return visit to Alaska, we knew that in addition to visiting our final two national parks up there we also had to trek to Barrow, Alaska. Why? Because our visit to the previous “northernmost city” in Minnesota [see Northwest Angle post] had an asterisks behind it — it was only the northernmost city …
The True Northernmost Extreme Point: Barrow, Alaska Read More »
We’re BAAACCCKKK! We’ve been back for a couple of days now actually, but we are still catching up on missed sleep and three weeks of “stuff” that we hadn’t been able to attend to from the Alaskan tundra. But alas, that trip is behind us and we’re now into our next park visit. We’re working …
We left Alaska a little more than two weeks ago, but I must confess that a lot of the spirit of Alaska is still in me. I absolutely loved it up there! I told Fred several times during our trip that if it weren’t for family and friends back in the Midwest, I would definitely …
The last of the six national parks we visited on this trip, Denali National Park and Preserve was another one of the big, mysterious, wild places that got protected by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) when President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that established over 100 million acres of new national parks, preserves, …
This visit to Denali National Park and Preserve was like no other trip to a national park that we have made thus far. Instead of driving into the park, or taking a boat, or even landing on water or a beach near a lodge where we would stay, on this trip we flew about 15 …
For most who come to Brooks Camp in Katmai NP in Alaska, it is about the bears. More specifically, the brown bears that congregate at Brooks Falls each July to await the sockeye salmon that make their way up the river and then must make a leap that Dwight Stone would be proud of to …
