👏🐾Put your paws together for the #Kobuk440, Northwest Alaska's annual #dog mushing race! Teams finished this week after traversing much of Selawik National #WildlifeRefuge and the Kobuk River, running the same trails that their distant wolf relatives have walked for many years before them. Refuge staff kept the Paniqsiġvik shelter cabin warm as teams passed through the harsh #Arctic environment. Before snowmachines became wildely available in the 1950s, dog sleds served as the primary transpor

It was so fun to adventure to a new fishing spot with Chris, Kobuk, and Akela a few weeks back! We narrowly missed the rainstorm, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain🌈 And that feeling of being cozy in the van with rain pouring down outside and a hot meal after a day spent outdoors is just magical😄🌧 What would be your ideal day in the outdoors? #vanlife #rockies #fishing #flyfishing #rainbow #vanlifediaries | Linnea & Akela

This… is Kobuk Valley National Park. 😍 ADG staff writer Ren Brabenec and collaborating artist Kenneth Crane Illustration & Design traveled to Kobuk Valley this past summer, one of only two U.S. flagship national parks located entirely above the Arctic Circle. 🗻 Dramatic Arctic sand dunes, a river that’s guided migratory caribou herds for thousands of years, and a landscape that has no roads, bridges, or established trails, this is a true wilderness landscape. 🫎 We’re currently working on a bl