About noon today Travis and I will begin our adventure to the north slope. Our plan for the day is to make it to about Coldfoot, stay the night, then weather permitting, drive up and over the Brooks range to our destination somewhere in the neighborhood of Toolik lake. It sounds like we will set up base camp off the Dalton highway, just past Toolik lake and day hike 5 miles off the road, where you are able to shoot and hopefully run into a caribou herd. I also picked up a small game license so if we run into any ptarmigan I will definitely try to bring a bunch of them back too.
I took a picture of my pile of gear that I'm taking up north. I have a large plastic sled that I outfitted with some rope and poles so that I can pull it as a Pulk sled. The Action Packer is filled with all my food and the duffel bag has all my other gear, clothing, cooking gear, GPS and so on. There is also my snowshoes and backpack. I'm not going to use the pack unless I have to, I tend to over-heat with a pack on in the cold weather.
I'm planning on taking lots of pics and video so check back in about a week for the "Arctic Adventure."
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