Last Frontier
Requiring full commitment, focus, planning, luck, proper equipment, knowledge, and most importantly humbleness. Acceptance that now you are at the whims of a raw and untamed wildness found nowhere else on earth.
Brooks Range releases us onto the arctic plain; a journey from source to sea
Pothole pike in the Bristol Bay tundra
Light show on the Arctic Tundra, ghosts of caribou past
One can hear the earth whizzing thru the never if you just listen
The most wild, cold, distant range in North America; Alaska's untamed Brooks Range
Solo seeker; grazing thru the remote headwaters of Bristol Bay
Ocean's gift; a vibrant splash of color amongst the endless braids; Bristol Bay, Alaska
Protector; provider; teacher
Yupik Nations grocery delivery
Leopard rainbow; over-winterer of the bogs
Inky black last light illuminating the return
Staged for the final jaunt
Relentless upstream mission
North Slope Northern lights
All for one and one for all across the bar
Summer's harvest
Subsistence king salmon harvest at the river mouth
The hunt
Fish Head soup
Across the Bar, Bristol Bay, Alaska
Painting the cold sky
Ocean strong upstream run, Bristol Bay, Alaska
Alagnak River, Bristol Bay, Alaska
Copper River, Alaska
Raw Determination
Headwaters, Bristol Bay, Alaska
Sockeyes, Kings, and Chums!