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[Cabin at Milepost 22x] The set up is one only a writer could dream up: Friends have a cabin just outside the Park boundaries, perched high up on a bluff above the meandering Nenana River. [...]

First, there is a quickening of the heart like one thousand hooves charging up a mountainous, scree slope. Then, there is the electricity of neurons firing to all four limbs—that same magnetic [...]

[Farewell view of American Creek Valley] We woke to frost each morning, especially thick on Day 4, and cooked our favorite meal of tundra-picked low-bush cranberry, crowberries, and blueberries [...]

[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 [...]