Arctic Adventures

   On the Mountains I took a ride with Mike towards the Kivalina trail shelter cabin. We were heading out in search of the caribou that were moving through the area. Its about 20 miles from town. There still is hardly any snow here so the trail was pretty rough. I had a hard time keeping up on my machine. After bouncing along for about an hour I pulled over a small rise where Mike was waiting for me.  My back was soaked in sweat from trying to soften the jarring blows of pounding over the "munnocks" or tussocks on the tundra. Wolves! A black wolf was racing up the mountainside, and another one in the willows. That means caribou. Sure enough, right after the wolves took off we saw a herd go racing off scared from the wolves. The connection on the sled that I was pulling fell off when we were going through the last rough section. I hadn't realized it until we stopped, so I had to turn around a go get it. Mike said he was going to head slowly up the mountain. I c

 Sunrise  Trout  Trout and Grayling  Oren's Fired Up About His New "Hat" Our Christmas Tree I went out fishing on Saturday. Had a stellar day. Ten trout and a pile of grayling. There still isn't hardly and snow here. It snowed about an inch on Friday night, and I was really hoping that we were going to get dumped on. Sunrise is somewhere around 11:30, and sunset about 3:30. It is light out for much longer that that because the angle of the sun is so shallow. We are getting in the Christmas spirit over here with our tree and lights up.