Logbook: Wasilla to Barrow, entry 3: preview of winter

It is a one-hour and four minute flight from Fairbanks to Deadhorse. I closed my eyes just before takeoff and resolved not to open them again until touchdown so that I could get as much rest as possible. Yet, just now I did open them and looked out the window. This is what I saw: a glimpse of winter, drawing near. This will melt, except maybe in the mountain tops, but it is coming. And just a couple of weeks ago, when I was in Nuiqsut, the temperature down there would have reached the upper 70's, maybe 80's. 

Logbook entry: Barrow to Anchorage, Anchorage to Wasilla - when wonderful work gets in the way of wonderful work

Next marker - the Yukon River. I thought of the reality TV show "Yukon Men," filmed a bit

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Logbook entry: leaving Anaktuvuk Pass, enroute to Wasilla - I missed the beautiful smile, but I did get the hand at the controls

Just south of the village, we flew over this little creek gulch where the

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Anaktuvuk Pass - the approach where David Alan Harvey almost lost his life; Ben Hopson III - "B III" - traps in the Brooks Range

He loaned me his best and newest snowmachine and I followed him out of the village. After 15 or

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