Four Day Trip Into The Alaska Range.

[Sourdough]

Just got back this evening.  Spent 4 days riding around looking for the Caribou Herd.  Did not find any Caribou, or Wolves that follow the herds.  Found several Moose, and saw three Lynx.  At night could get the Wolves to answer my calls, but they would not come in.The local trapper had two wolves at his place that he had trapped.  One of them was the biggest wolf I had ever seen.  They were both grays.  Did see one Grizzly yesterday.  I was up on top of the ridge between Bonifield Creek and the Wood River.  I glassed the southern slopes looking for Wolves and spotted one Grizzly already out.  It's awsume to look down on glaciers, and to see mountains for hundreds of miles.  No roads, no sign of human habitation anywhere in sight.  Made a mistake and crossed the divide, went down a slope and got stuck.  Snow machine did not have enough power to climb back out.  Had to go on down to the Wood River, then run down the river. That trippled the distance back to the cabin.  Ran out of daylite and spent the night under a spruce tree, on the river bank.  Spruce needles and boughs make a good mattress, and it's dry under there.  Glad I keep that wool blanket strapped to the bottom of my pack.  Slept in till nine AM. then left after it warmed up some.  Made the run down river in the daylite pretty quick, my GPS said I was running a top speed of 61 MPH going down the river.  Did not know that machine would go that fast.  Took two hours to go down river to the intersection with the Rex trail.  Then an hour and half back to the cabin.  Packed up, then two hours to the highway, then two hour drive to North Pole.

[corbanzo]

That sounds like a great trip, I love making trips like that all alone.  One that I want to do in my area is going up what is called lowel canyon, and from their it is supposidely possible to cross over the mountains and get up in the tundra and make it over to bear glacier.  I dont know if that is the truth, and you would have to have one heck of a machine to get up that side, cause I have hiked to the top of it, and it was not a fun trip up, that is for sure.

Its the same place where the bears cross over from one valley to the next, but trying to keep up with a bear in climbing is pretty much like following a goat. 

I got the old 94 cheetah 440 up to about 75 on the road, with a good hard pack of snow, she was cryin. 

I really want to try and get up n that valley, but the things is that there is a lot of avalanche danger, so I would have to scope it really good, and haul through some areas that were dangerous, and also see if i can find the guy who supposidely used to go over the top. 

I would love to get over to see if i can get a good view of the harding icefield from the top.