Tag Archives: Alaska’s North Slope  There is a great simplicity in a trip to the Arctic tundra, the demands of everyday life back home drop away and are replaced by new routines. Prominent amongst these new tasks is collecting firewood for drying, cooking, heating and melting snow to make water, in fact melting snow warrants a whole task category of […]  Travelling the old fashioned way with a powerful team of 22 malamutes. By day forging a trail through virgin snow and over distant passes and camping in remote river valleys by night. This is what it’s all about. no comments  You don’t have to fly to Deadhorse you can drive there too. The Dalton highway is an almost mythic road that runs for over 400 miles through Arctic wilderness. It connects Fairbanks with Deadhorse and is the main supply route for the oilfields. Recently it has come to fame as the road in the TV […] 1 comment  Getting to the start of an expedition on Alaska’s North Slope is an experience in itself. It’s hugely enjoyable. Fairbanks to Deadhorse via Kaktovik with Frontier Flying. It’s a regular scheduled flight but the size of the aircraft definitely feels frontier. It is the scenic route; you fly over hundreds of miles of wilderness. I […] 2 comments |
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