On Sunday the 12th at 6am I went caribou hunting with my brother in law, Peter, and my father in law Tim. We drove north just past the Brooks Range - it only took us about 14 hours total. We saw no caribou, some wildlife we did see were some ptarmigan, sheep, moose, porcupine, and about a trillion mosquitoes! It was about 80 degrees where we camped, Galbraith Lake, north of the Arctic Circle. After searching for caribou a couple of days we gave up and headed to Chena Hot Springs - on our way there we heard there were tons of caribou near Phrudoe Bay. We were only about 100 miles from there. It was a fun trip, the Dalton was not too bad and it was really cool to go that far north. Next year I think we will go later in the season when more animals are legal. Enjoy the pictures.
A stop light on the Dalton!?
Some fireweed and a cool rock formation.
Supposedly the farthest north spruce tree on the road/Pipeline. Somebody started to chop it down for some reason, also about 50 feet north of this tree is a living spruce.
Looking down on the road and Pipeline from one of the passes in the Brooks.
Some mountains in the Brooks Range.
Some mountains in the Brooks Range.
The Arctic Circle.
A view from the road. You can see the pipeline and the fireweed. Fireweed is the first plant that grows after a wildfire. In some places it looked like the fireweed went on for miles.
Under the Pipeline, just north of the Yukon.
Crossing the Yukon River. The floor of the bridge is wood!
