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

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.

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

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.

More of the same herd of musk oxen.

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

This cow caribou ran across the road in front of my car.

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