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[Base camp for 2 nights at the headwaters of American Creek.] We woke to sunlight and took notice of the Dall sheep, which had dropped boldly down into the valley from their steep, rocky [...]

[Sample of micro-tundra vegetation] The valleys seemed devoid of moose, caribou, and bear, but we trekked above treeline and near headwaters and great mountain cirques most of the day. That meant [...]

[Dear Readers: I’m out of the backcountry and a few hundred miles south, now in Denali–where I’ll be based for two weeks or so. Meantime, the next few days will be used for [...]

AK 2010, Days 19 & 20: Packing Up and Heading Out Good news, folks: One of my short stories was accepted by CALYX literary journal yesterday. A great publication and one I’m honored to be [...]

I’m in some sort of half-sleep-dream-state around 12:30am, just when the sun has finally “set” and the nearly full moon taken over. “The light, the light,” someone keeps saying. I think maybe [...]

It’s been two weeks at the cabin and it’s finally starting to feel like community. The neighbor Amrit’s dog comes to play regularly. The lady moose comes to sip and slosh in our pond nightly. The [...]

It’s been fascinating to explore the nuances of this little cabin as each day here in Fairbanks unfolds. Last week, we found a pie pan and made wild raspberry cobbler. We also discovered a stack [...]

[Note to self: Chance encounters with the elusive Alaskan male species are not unlike chance encounters with Alaskan moose—both are equally enchanting and unpredictable.] Newsy-news: My 23-minute [...]

Uh. Okay. So, she just kind of showed up. I was drinking water at the pond, you know, a late-evening kind of thing. And then I saw her. And she saw me. She was cute and all, if you could overlook [...]

They all warned me. KB told me, Lila told me, Compton told me, Jeremy told me. Between last year and this year’s visit, I must have been told a dozen times: “Alaska is a small state.” Of course, [...]