Kobuk Valley National Park...

The Kobuk River

...Oh my goodness, what a place!  Always something odd,
like sand dunes north of the arctic circle - yes earth that doesn't clod.
Half million caribou migrate here each year,
and swim the Kobuk River - very near right here.

It's a traditional hunting grounds, for the Alaska Native people,
hunted the caribou where they swim with spears, to keep things equal.
Now the caribou still migrate and the hunt is another kind,
rifles make things more distant, but the hunt is in the mind.


29 square miles of dunes, 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle



Caribou swim the Kobuk River