Made it up to Deadhorse, the end of the Dalton Highway, but the only way I could find to get around the oil field security and get to the Arctic Ocean was to hike a twenty-five mile round-trip through marshy land in the cold and rain. Given the fact that I couldn’t feel my fingers after just two hours outside yesterday I decided that seeing the Arctic Ocean will have to be an experience for another trip.<\/p>\n
Spent a good chunk of the afternoon in the midst of a herd of about fifty muskox. It’s apparently their rutting season, and I watched two of the beasts duking it out — what a sight! They shake their big heads from side-to-side menacingly at one another while backing up until they’re about eighty feet apart, then they charge full speed and smash heads, making a loud banging sound. The two I saw did this seven times before one was thrown off balance and the other one chased him off. Later on a big male was walking right towards me, apparently not seeing me, and not wanting to surprise him I stood up and starting backing away. It was only after a few seconds that I realized I was exactly duplicating the rutting behavior I’d witnessed earlier, but luckily this guy didn’t feel like butting heads. Another very memorable day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Made it up to Deadhorse, the end of the Dalton Highway, but the only way I could find to get around the oil field security and get to the Arctic Ocean was to hike a twenty-five mile round-trip through marshy land in the cold and rain. Given the fact that I couldn’t feel my fingers … Continue reading “325 miles up the Dalton Highway, Alaska”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-alaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}