I spent the last week leading a photo tour to one of my favorite places in the state of Alaska: Wiseman. This gold-rush era village of log cabins and scattered and rusting mining equipment, lies in the southern Brooks Range,…
I have been woefully neglectful of this blog over the past couple of months. Sorry. First the trip to South America, then led an aurora tour up to the Brooks Range and now a surprisingly crazy April with lots of…
Yesterday President Obama proposed full wilderness designation for the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This the highest level of protection that can be bestowed on public lands in the United States, and there are few places as…
“There are strange things done in the midnight sun, by the men who moil for gold…” So starts the first verse of Robert Service’s classic poem The Cremation of Sam McGee. There is a great story woven into the rhyme…
5:30am on an Arctic morning and I was barefoot, standing in three inches of wet snow, wearing just my boxer shorts and holding a 12-gauge shotgun in my hand. That was the moment I realized the absurdity of what I…
On our final morning on the Jago, as we waited for the weather to clear off the mountains, I took the opportunity to spend a bit of time making photos. It was a nice morning for photography, cloud shadows rolled…
Scudding clouds roll past a peak over the Jago River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
I’m just back from a few days in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I was base-camped with a single client at a spectacular site along the Jago River. The Jago has now entered my short list of most beautiful places…
Storm over the mountains of the upper Sheenjek Valley I just finished my first trip of the season guiding for Arctic Wild, and it was a great way to start the summer. Like many early season trips the days…