Marion Creek Campground Coldfoot

... Pass (tu is the accented syllable). The others were flying directly back to Fairbanks. The trip to Anaktuvuk Pass is optional. The plane was a 10 passenger Piper Chief. Our pilot, Steve, was retired from Hawaiian Airlines. Anaktuvuk Pass is a native village within Gates of the Arctic National Park, just 200 miles south of the Arctic Ocean, and over 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle. It is a 45 minute flight from Coldfoot. Unfortunately the smoke from the ...

... only a few minutes into the mosquito sea, my defense was broken. Some mos broke into my net and buzzed INSIDE my net!!! That night I had dozens of bites on my forehead, side-face and neck.

What's more incredible was that the young girl who led us to the lodge (a few hundred feets from the main building) wore very short pant, shirtless top, and we can see mosquios all over ...

Today was another cloudy day in Alaska, so after an excellent breakfast of fresh fruit and yogurt, and packing a box lunch for the road, I went on a tour of Deadhorse. Chris, the tour guide worked in the oil business for twenty six years, has retired, and now returns every summer to tour people through the complex. Deadhorse is not a town, it is an industrial complex completely owned and operated by ...

... you to take their cars on the road. The majority of the "traffic" consists of giant tractor trailers rumbling by to supply the oil fields or returning empty (and at top speed) to re-fill. The Arctic Circle is actually only about a third of the way up the "highway" but still takes several hours to drive. The only stop with gas and food is Yukon River Camp. There, you can see the only bridge in Alaska ...

... erwarte. Coldfoot - Galbraith Lake Ich fahre auf Naturstrasse und bei trockenem und oft sonnigem Wetter durch eine der Schoensten Gegende von Alaska und ueberquere am Schluss einen happig steilen Pass, den Atigun Pass wo es aber unmittelbar hinter mir heftig zu regnen beginnt. Ich habe ueber 600km gefahren, es ist nach 8 Uhr und nun befinde ich mich vor der Gegend der flachen Tundra. Doch weiter mag ich nicht und prompt werde ich vom Regen eingeholt. Wegen der ...

An early start again, to drive to Fairbanks. Fairbanks was founded on gold and then on black gold - oil. We saw the Trans Alaska Pipeline which goes across Alaska - from Valdez ( where the fated tanker got its name) in the South to Dead Horse in the North. Half of the pipeline is underground and it zig zags its way across the tundra - about 800 mile, I think. They had to consider two things when building it - one was earthquakes which ...

So not quite the end... I managed to squeeze in another small trip before I left, though I had exams study for and assignments to hand in. I went Dog Sledding, it was a short ride cause it was -30 C and 9:00 am in the morning, but a great experience, always wanted to do it and now I can say I did. We ran with a ...

... sich dabei einen grossen Teil seines Wissens selbst bei, bevor ** sich dann spät** in Tanana nied**liess. Nun freuten wir uns darauf, auch einmal von diesem Leben in d** Wildnis kosten zu dürfen und richteten uns in uns**** Hütte wohnlich ein. Bald gewöhnten wir uns an das einfache Leben und l**nten, wie wir uns in d** subarktischen Wildnis zu v**halten hatten, teilweise **st nachdem wir am eigenen Leibe **fahren hatten, wie fatal sich winzige Fehl** auswirken können. D ...

... wir wahrscheinlich schon nächsten Sonntag oder Montag in unsere Cabin hinaus fahren werden, da er vor Weihnachten wieder zurück sein muss! Das tönt doch gut, nicht? Heute haben wir erst am Nachmittag die Hunde angeschirrt und sind, nachdem sie gestern einen Tag Pause hatten, ausgefahren. Stan führte uns über ein paar recht anspruchsvolle Trails ausserhalb des Dorfes. Das war vielleicht ein Spass, in teilweise atemberaubendem Tempo durch den Winterwald zu ...