Back from the Alaska bush. My trip into the Brooks Range was, well, exciting to say the least. We left Friday late afternoon and arrived at a lake about 185 miles north of Fairbanks and 80 miles north of the Arctic Circle. I''ll say now, it was beautiful...

We had a great dinner and got up early Saturday morning and loaded up in the plane again. The plane was a 170 Cessna two seater, so my buddie Jake sat in the rear cargo space to give my long legs some streaching room.We flew another 20 miles, give or take, further north into the Brooks over some very high peaks to another little landing strip. We''ll the pilot called it a landing strip, it looked more like a flat open space with some gravel on it to me and low brush growing in the middle. I didn''t really worry about it till we clipped a small Willow bush, but we landed fine with no issues.

On the ground we found what we came to get, 2 Polaris ATV''s that Jake and I had to drive back to the main cabin, that is 20 air miles to the cabin...

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