Alaska's North Slope

Hunting caribou on the Haul Road

The Alaska pipeline wiggles its way next to the Haul Road between Fairbanks and Deadhorse, Alaska.

I expected to be suffocated by vast, open isolation. I wanted it.
As a resident of Southeast Alaska, I am used to the claustrophobic nature of the suffocating forest and euphoria of breaking out of the timber and into the alpine, but the tundra of the Nort…