Prudhoe Bay - Deadhorse, AK

After arriving in Anchorage the previous day, we flew to Deadhorse on the North Slope to meet our expedition leader who drove a 10 passenger Freightliner van 500 miles up the Dalton Highway from Fairbanks. This area is an industrial camp supporting North Slope oil production, on the coast of the Beaufort Sea. It is flat frozen Arctic tundra, 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and full of wildlife! A few miles south and you are in the Arctic wilderness.