Caribou hunt

In August, John W., Chase and I went caribou hunting in far north Alaska. It took 16 hrs to drive there. The top picture is the Alaska Pipeline. It goes on for hundreds of miles, mostly above ground. Occasionally it dips down under ground for 40 or 50 feet then comes right back up. Other times it goes under for an entire mountain. You can't tell in the picture but you can walk under it and barely duck you head, well I can.
We stopped at the Arctic Circle for a few minutes to stretch our legs and use the toilet. The Arctic Circle is the imaginary line in the northern hemisphere that gets 24 hrs of sunlight/darkness.

The end of the road was Deadhorse. The sign was on the building outside of the post office. We went to Deadhorse regularly because John's wife was expecting and we could get cell signal. Also that was where we could get gas. It was $3.69 gal.
The last photo of course is the reason we went. I got him on the 7th day of hunting. It got down to 33 degrees that night with the sun up. That was good because it kept the flies away and cooled the meat down nicely.
Another interesting fact about the Haul road is that it is the only crossing of the Yukon river in the state of Alaska. Weird. I meant to get a picture of it but it was dark when we crossed going home and we didn't want to stop on the way up.