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Ready to ride out. All of the caribou meat was loaded on my bike here. I couldn't ride it like this, of course, so I guided it along and easily got it close to the road. It was very difficult to go through the last 20 yards of thick, tall bushes near the road, though.

Tundra colors

Windy Creek Road

Rainbow over the Clearwater Creek valley.

My wife bushwhacks through some dwarf birch on our way up into the mountains. There's no trail.

Skinning it out. Starting the job at about 5:55 pm.

Second lake down Alpine Creek

Bringing in the meat cart. My caribou was shot about 1/5 mile uphill from the road/trail, and our backpacks were back at the car, so I decided to bring my bike up across the tundra and use it to wheel the meat back to the road in one heavy, frustrating load.