After leaving the Katmai coast and returning to mainland Alaska, we headednorth with the plan to photograph in the Brooks Range. We would base this part of the trip inWiseman, a small village with a population of 14 located 200 miles from thenorth coast of Alaska.The Dalton Highway runs from just north of Fairbanks all the way to PrudhoeBay on the north coast. It is usedheavily by truckers taking supplies and equipment to the oil industry inPrudhoe Bay and was featured in the TV show Ice Road Truckers due to thedangers of driving on the road in the winter. Lucky for us, it wasn’t winter. It did rain a bunch and, as you can see by our car, the road was a muddymess. I thought photography was a cleanendeavor.We drove all the way toPrudhoe Bay, another 200 miles north of Wiseman and it took 7 hours to getthere. We found some Musk Ox tophotograph and drove back the same day. I will never drive to Prudhoe Bay again.The mountains of the Brooks Range are amazing and the storms that broughtus rain gave the mountain peaks fresh snow. There was fall color everywhere but the rain was quickly putting an endto it. There are Dall Sheep in the Range along with a few grizzly bears. We stopped to photograph the beautiful bearbelow and were spotted doing so by some bow hunters who then went out to huntthe bear. We think he got away but wewill never know for sure. Bow hunting islegal but it was frustrating to have brought the bear to their attention.After several days in the Brooks Range we headed south to Denali NationalPark, a 10 hour drive south of Wiseman. The storms that brought us rain delivered fresh snow to Mount McKinleyand the adjoining mountains. The weathercleared just enough to photograph it before the clouds closed in again and themountain resumed is usual hidden condition.I am writing and posting this blog entry on the night flight back home (lovethe new wi-fi on planes now) and will try to get a few hours sleep. As usual, it was exhausting but I had a tonof fun hanging out with Jess and learned a few things from him, as I always do.I’ll be meeting up with him and a couple other guys in a month tophotograph polar bears on the northeast coast of Alaska. It’s going to be good.
21 Eylül 2012 Cuma
Brooks Range and Denali
After leaving the Katmai coast and returning to mainland Alaska, we headednorth with the plan to photograph in the Brooks Range. We would base this part of the trip inWiseman, a small village with a population of 14 located 200 miles from thenorth coast of Alaska.The Dalton Highway runs from just north of Fairbanks all the way to PrudhoeBay on the north coast. It is usedheavily by truckers taking supplies and equipment to the oil industry inPrudhoe Bay and was featured in the TV show Ice Road Truckers due to thedangers of driving on the road in the winter. Lucky for us, it wasn’t winter. It did rain a bunch and, as you can see by our car, the road was a muddymess. I thought photography was a cleanendeavor.We drove all the way toPrudhoe Bay, another 200 miles north of Wiseman and it took 7 hours to getthere. We found some Musk Ox tophotograph and drove back the same day. I will never drive to Prudhoe Bay again.The mountains of the Brooks Range are amazing and the storms that broughtus rain gave the mountain peaks fresh snow. There was fall color everywhere but the rain was quickly putting an endto it. There are Dall Sheep in the Range along with a few grizzly bears. We stopped to photograph the beautiful bearbelow and were spotted doing so by some bow hunters who then went out to huntthe bear. We think he got away but wewill never know for sure. Bow hunting islegal but it was frustrating to have brought the bear to their attention.After several days in the Brooks Range we headed south to Denali NationalPark, a 10 hour drive south of Wiseman. The storms that brought us rain delivered fresh snow to Mount McKinleyand the adjoining mountains. The weathercleared just enough to photograph it before the clouds closed in again and themountain resumed is usual hidden condition.I am writing and posting this blog entry on the night flight back home (lovethe new wi-fi on planes now) and will try to get a few hours sleep. As usual, it was exhausting but I had a tonof fun hanging out with Jess and learned a few things from him, as I always do.I’ll be meeting up with him and a couple other guys in a month tophotograph polar bears on the northeast coast of Alaska. It’s going to be good.
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