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A Walk Through the Gates | Backpacking Gates of the Arctic National Park

Written by Dave Outside



Two weeks in the remote Gates of the Arctic National Park. Above the Arctic Circle in the Brooks Range of Northern Alaska, we hiked through valleys, passes and across moraines for weeks. This has been our most ambitions and logistically involved trip to date but we can’t wait to head back up to Alaska, hopefully with a couple packrafts in tow.

As I said, this place is above the Arctic Circle and as such the habitat is very susceptible to human impacts. Due to the short summer growing season and overall austere conditions, impacts to the land take much longer to recover when compared to…

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