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A musk ox grazing near the Sag River in the coastal plain.

A dall sheep yew and her lamb walk a trail that appears to be nothing but sheer cliff on the side of a mountian near the Dalton Highway -- I think it was Slope Mountain.

View from the Elliott Highway not far north of Fairbanks, on my way up to the Dalton.

A herd of caribou (all cows) crossing over a hilltop near the Kuparuk River.

Morning mist over a little marshy pond on the south side of Atigun Pass in the Brooks Range.

This is one of the many shallow, unnamed lakes in the Arctic coastal plain near the Dalton Highway.

A lone caribou grazes on the Arctic coastal plain near Prudhoe Bay.

More of the same herd of musk oxen.

This close-up of the tundra gives you some sense of what it's like to walk on the stuff. I've heard it compared to walking on a mattress stuffed with basketballs.