Visitors

We had the good fortune of four boys visiting from Norway. They’re on somewhat of an adventurous trip to the Brooks Range where they’ll be setting off down the Noatak River all the way to Kotzebue. This is a part of Alaskan recreation. People pay thousands of dollars to have a bush plane set them off in the middle of nowhere equipped with a canoe, guns, some food and a burning desire to join the wilderness for weeks on end, perhaps even becoming a part of it. Then, at the end of said trip, packing up the canoe, and returning to the obligations of civilization, nestled under florrescent lights and cozy computer screens, remembering that time and place when life was dependent on the ability to hunt their food, if only for a few weeks.