Oronaut

Our time in Valdez with our friends was really great, and that speaks a lot for our friends considering the circumstances we ended up arriving under. Tragically, the week before we got there, a close friend of theirs committed suicide. The reason we were joined by Luke a week early, who we are floating Birch [...]

Tags: glaciers, porpoises, sea kayaking, Shoup Bay, Skiing, Thompson Pass, Valdez
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After Banff it was time to bear down and do some real driving. Alaska was days away still. So we did just that: drive. The first day (starting late after the climbing, around 5PM) we drove up past Edmonton to Grand Prairie, where we camped for a few hours before waking up early to make [...]

Tags: Alcan, buffalo, caribou, glaciers, Glenn highway, Hot Springs, Kluane Lake, Liard, Matanuska, rock sheep, signpost forest, taiga, Tazlina, Whitehorse, yukon, Yukon River
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