Night 15: Is It Going to Stop F*cking Snowing?

Night 15/25

It’s June. I know I’m in the Arctic Circle. I know it’s not technically summer. But there is plenty of day light and enough mosquitos to think more relaxed moments laying out on the tundra would be at hand.

But it started snowing as we broke camp and snowed on and off until we were lifted off the refuge by Daniel and Matt in two separate Helio Couriers after night fifteen.

It was a short hike and we had two stream crossings. One was the most significant of our entire hike. At the beginning our guide had told us there would only be one stream crossing, but there were many. That there would be one stream crossing in 30 miles of Alaskan Arctic hiking seemed wrong to me, and I was right, by a lot.