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June 10, 2024 – Day 3 – Polar Bear Habitat, Bowhead Whales and Varied Walking
Good news, my sore throat was gone this morning. Glad to have dodged that bullet. Our walk from the Beaufort Sea to the Brooks Range continues, and today, surprise, the sun came out for a brief spell and the cold… Continue reading
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June 9, 2024 – Day 2 – Sore Throat, Fog and Birds Galore
While day one was a true thriller, day two was pleasantly benign. Good. Thrillers make stories and we’re bound to have a few of those, but it’s no way to sustain a long expedition. Speaking of expeditions, Elaine shared a… Continue reading
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June 8, 2024 – Day 1 – Drop-off, Beaufort Sea and Falling in a Frozen River
“How does it feel to give up control?” These were some of the final words our pilot imparted on us before leaving Elaine and I alone in the big, big wild. The Alaskan coast on the Beaufort Sea is an… Continue reading
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Brooks Range Journals – June 10, 2023 – Snow!
I woke up around 2 am this morning, the shelter bright as day, to the sound of something pitter-pattering on the walls. It wasn’t the sound of rain, but a more glancing, lighter blow. I crawled out of my sleeping… Continue reading
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Brooks Range Journals: June 9, 2023 – Drop off day
Today is drop in day for this year’s Brooks Range excursion. After driving 3,000 miles from Colorado to Alaska and sifting through gear in a dillapidated AirBNB in Fairbanks, spending hours in line getting Alaska plates so our car is… Continue reading
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Brooks Range Traverse Gear List
This is a list of the gear we used on our hike/paddle across the Brooks Range. This was roughly 600 miles of hiking and 400 miles of paddling. Gear is super personal; what works for some people doesn’t for others… Continue reading
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The Quiet Snow of Spring
It’s the night of May 3rd, less than 50 days till the summer solstice, and it’s 27° F and lightly snowing lightly. It’s a bit ridiculous, but at the same time not unusual. May is the third snowiest month of… Continue reading
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2021 Expedition Amundsen: The North American Plan
Synopsis: We’re looking to take two, three-person teams of North Americans to Norway to compete in the 2021 Expedition Amundsen 100 km adventure ski race in late-February. This is considered one of the hardest ski races in the world, testing… Continue reading
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Northern Wilderness: A 2019 Thru-Hike on the Great Divide Trail
In 2019 my wife Elaine and I hiked the Great Divide Trail from close to the U.S/Canada border to Kakwa Lake in British Columbia. We were unable to start at the exact Waterton National Park border due to the massive… Continue reading
Alta Backcountry: Living and Exporing in Wild Places
Alta Backcountry 