Caribou recap
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 North Slope promised me a different type of smallness. I was a little disappointed. Not by the scene itself, but by the sheer amount of people. This shouldn’t have been too surprising since the Haul Road hunt has been the setting for a tremendous amount of footage from Lower 48 hunters filming episodes and residents contributing their stories too. In the four days my hunting buddy Ryan and I were in the area, we saw more non-resident hunting groups than bull caribou.
