Sarah
Palin and Ted Stevens will tell you the arctic of Alaska is barren.....primed, ready for oil drilling. Becky and I just got back from leading a raft trip in the arctic on the
Kongakut river where we saw muskox, brown bear, Dall Sheep, caribou, and wolf just to name a few..... not barren at all. Not even close to barren! It was a custom trip for Tom Murphy, a professional photographer, with five of his close f
riends. While our main mission was to find cool subjects to photograph we were not in short supply of other things to do. Fishing! The fishing was unreal. With any cast worth its weight in salt we would catch fish, mainly Arctic Char or
Grayling.
August in the Arctic brings fall and it's plethora of vivid colors scattered across the landscape. Reds brought on by birch, blue berry and bear bear berry bushes, yellows from poplar trees and willows, greens from grasses and sedges. It's a dream like state in the north this time of year.
Sarah Palin and Ted Stevens will tell you the arctic of Alaska is barren.....primed, ready for oil drilling. Becky and I just got back from leading a raft trip in the arctic on the Kongakut river where we saw muskox, brown bear, Dall Sheep, caribou, and wolf just to name a few..... not barren at all. Not even close to barren! It was a custom trip for Tom Murphy, a professional photographer, with five of his close friends. While our main mission was to find cool subjects to photograph we were not in short supply of other things to do. Fishing! The fishing was unreal. With any cast worth its weight in salt we would catch fish, mainly Arctic Char or Grayling. 
