Night 18/25
The Kongakut is a busy river. It is an Arctic classic. And it is busiest at the busiest part of the season when everyone who is going there is trying to show up late enough to miss any really cold weather but early enough so the bugs haven't hatched yet. Or late enough so the bugs have died, but not so late that you are in danger of getting any really cold weather.
I stayed at Caribou Pass before. It is a low pass and the caribou migrate through it when they head to the mountains from the Arctic Plain when they are finished calving. On my previous visit, it was snowing, horizontally. This time it was so warm after a sweaty hike i took a naked dip in the Kongakut to clean off. There were just few enough bugs.
But this time, human excrement and toilet paper were littered around. Right by the river, where people camp. Who? How? Huh?
It is a huge effort to get to that place on Earth, for anybody. It just seemed like somebody was in a hurry, or not that happy to be there.
But ugh, I saw that at Sykes Hot Springs, who gets out there and leaves a place like that?
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