Kongakut River, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Kongakut River, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Starting in the heart of the Brooks Range we raft north to the foothills. If combined with the Lower Kongakut Arctic Coastal Paddle we go all the way to the Arctic Ocean.
Midnight - high in the Brooks Range	Caribou on the move as they always are in the Arctic Refuge	Birding up high in the high arctic
Protesting Arctic Ground Squirrel	Looking for birds in all the places.	Merlin
Photographing the Auf Eis	Wolf	Arctic Tern
Glaucous Gull	Parrya spp.	Birding the open tundra
Arctic Fritillary	Getting down with the flowers	Vast wilderness of the Arctic Refuge
Smith's Longspur with a nice morsel for its youngster	Common Redpoll	American Golden Plover
Midnight hike	Dall Sheep with lamb	Caribou
Day hiking on a layover day	Arctic Ground Squirrels checking out the intruders.	What goes on in the wilderness stays in the wilderness
Looking down on camp	Taking in a wave	Dall Sheep watching over the river
Bird the boonies - so many birds, so little time