In late April, Scott went on a caribou hunt with Luke and Brian up north, well above the Arctic Circle. It is about a 10 hour drive north of Denali National Park. Hunting regulations require you to get 5 miles off the road before gun hunting. Snowmobiles and ATVs are not permitted, so we skied in and set up camp just inside 5 miles. The visibility was not so good, about 20 yards, which was very disorienting, you couldn't see any horizon, it was all white; less than ideal conditions for hunting.
The next morning the clouds lifted and visibility improved greatly. After a very cold morning, with a bitter windchill, the wind stopped as we left camp in search of caribou. After a couple of hours of skiing around , we jumped some bou, they ran off a
1/4 mile towards our camp. We circled back around them, crawled up to a point where we could get shots. After the fire-fight, we had two bou down. We skinned and quartered them and broke camp for the ski back to the car and the ride home.
Definitely a unique hunt and one we will do again.
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