Northern life, revisited
In line at the Anchorage post office. I scuff snow from the soles of my sealskin boots, leaving slushy puddles on the dirty linoleum floor. I dig my frozen fingers into the pockets of my down jacket,...
View ArticleSnowfall in Lugano
Exhausted after a visit to the emergency room the night before, I, Acacia-from-Alaska, sighed happily when Quinn-from-Colorado announced, at six-thirty in the morning one day, that there were about...
View ArticleEklutna Midwinter: Life, Love, and the Merits of Suffering
A few weeks ago I was emailing with another photographer who integrates his art with wilderness travel. Near the end of one message I received, he described adventure as art, life, love and the merits...
View ArticleClimbing Ice, Freezing Fingers
Alone at home in Alaska, in the wake of Tor Edvin and Nic’s departures, I decided to reunite with some old friends. I called up Killian Sump, adventurer and past coworker at Kenai Fjords Glacier Lodge....
View ArticleLearning Winter: November in Arctic Bay
We sat around a table in a little mountain cabin, warming up. The exposed skin around my eyes had been frozen, brittle when we arrived, painful to squeeze my eyes shut against the sting of ice-coated...
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