A group of clients and I descended a steep gravel slope of a mountain we’d just summited. There was hardly any vegetation, just a long field of fine gravel interspersed with copper-colored boulders. The Kelly River Valley below was sweeping…
Canon 5D iii, Canon 24-105 f4L IS, ISO 400, f8.0, 105mm, 1/640th sec, handheld. This August, for the third year in a row, I guided a canoe trip down the Noatak River in Gates of the Arctic National Park for Arctic…
When I first saw the Kokolik River from the approaching bush plane, I was disappointed. The undramatic river flows quickly out of the Brooks Range and does not become large enough to float a canoe until it is well away…