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Fairbanks – Arctic Village – Cane Creek
1100. Starting weights (body and pack), as weighed in at Wright Air this morning:
The pack weights don’t include a gallon of camping fuel, plus we made a few gear swaps after we disembarked in Arctic Village. Captain “Boots” flew us first to Fort Yukon, dropped off two Continue reading “Notes from the Field: 13 August 2013, Day One”
Unalaska – Anchorage-Fairbanks
Our journey started yesterday with but a minor hiccup – that moment when the pilot told us, “Sorry, folks, you’re going to need to deplane.”
After an hour of sitting in the terminal – the quietest I’ve ever heard it as 17 or so of us sat around and waited for Dr. Jason to pay a PenAir house call -we all got back on board Continue reading “Notes from the Field: 12 August 2013, Day One-1”
5.5 miles. We are lost on a steeplechase course and Shari climbs a dung heap to ascertain our location. We are really done walking now – 297.1 miles!
Okay, we said yesterday that we were done walking. But by mid-morning we’d long since exhausted all that Holyhead has to offer – a huge breakwater and a Roman fortlet (yes, a little fort) – and decided to go out for a stroll to a Neolithic-age standing stone and burial chamber.
