Quick post to let you all know about a new photo workshop I’ll be offering in July of 2018. It’s a 5-day wilderness trip, (plus an optional add-on day), that will carry us to a remote corner of the dramatic…
Wiseman, Alaska March 2017 – Aurora Tour Trip Report
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,…
Announcing New Tours Site!
Just launched! My new site dedicated to guiding services and your ticket to the best photography, natural history, and wilderness trips in Alaska. 100% customized, small-group itineraries, from extended backcountry adventures to single evenings watching the aurora borealis around a campfire.…
Coal Creek Dredge
The Coal Creek Dredge is a hulking, land-chewing, industrial caterpillar. Dormant now, the beast sits idle in the center of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, a legacy to the mining history of the park. It’s an ugly thing, operated on and off…
Poetry and the River
“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…
Absurdity
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…
The Chilkoot Trail
In 1896 a fellow by the name of George Carmacks and his companions discovered gold in the headwaters of what was then known as Rabbit Creek, a tributary to the Klondike in the Yukon territory. Their discovery caused and uproar…
The Names of Mountains
An unnamed tributary to the upper Sheenjek River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. In the Rockies of Colorado, where I spent a lot of time during my formative years, one of the things I loved (still do actually)…
Backpacking the Sheenjek
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…