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Rafting in the Aichilik The Aichilik River winds through a central portion of the Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuge. Here, Mike in his pack raft meanders down river in a pretty open stretch. Most sections of the river would be classified as a class 2 which basically means it wasn’t too difficult to navigate, with only [...] black sand at the mouth of aichilik After a morning of kayaking down the braided Aichilik river and needing to push it raft the homestretch through what can only be described as quicksand, a place to rest was finally reached on a sand bar within easy view of the Beaufort sea / Arctic [...] solid ice under soil While kayaking down the Aichilik river valley in Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuge, it wasn’t uncommon to see chunks of soil floating slowly down. The question could be asked, where did those chunks originate? The picture above shows exactly why. Under what is seemingly an endless tundra in this Arctic [...] landing strip This airstrip near the mouth of the Aichilik river, where it empties into the Beaford Sea lies an old military landing strip. The strip was originally build by the United States Fish and Wildlife as a camp during the days of the cold war. Today it is mainly used by the US [...] |
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