{"id":913,"date":"2013-09-05T15:23:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T23:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/?p=913"},"modified":"2013-09-05T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T23:23:52","slug":"snow-on-the-kelly-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/2013\/09\/05\/snow-on-the-kelly-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow on the Kelly River"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve finally finished my summer guiding season. It was a demanding and rewarding. I visited some extraordinary places, met some remarkable people, and had at least three separate days so beautiful I was actually brought to tears. (I’m a softy when it comes the landscapes I love.)<\/p>\n

My final trip of the year was a week long trip down the Kelly River in the far northwest portion of the Brooks Range. I was guiding for Arctic Wild<\/a>\u00a0as I have throughout the summer. The river is a tiny little thing that seeps out of the mountains and flows south into the lower Noatak River. It was as clear as glass and filled with a huge run of Chum salmon that darted away from the bow of my canoe as I paddled like an endless flock of aquatic birds.<\/p>\n

Strangely, a highlight of the trip was waking up one morning to three inches of snow on the ground. The storm had begun the night before, but in my persistent optimism I assumed the snow would not stick. I was wrong. The morning brought with it a series of increasingly broken cloud banks that rolled through scattering sunlight on the newly snowy mountains. I was awake before the clients and spent that hour scurrying about with my camera making images.\u00a0It was completely spectacular.<\/p>\n

More from this trip, and the rest of my summer to come. Over the next few weeks I’m going to be posting as often as I can and sharing some of the stories of my summer in Alaska’s awesome Brooks Range. Check back in for more in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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