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Travel is seasonal and the seasons are changing

Snowmachine, boat, and the shoulder months.

A single narrow snowmachine track curving away over unbroken snow seen from low down, long blue shadows, no road and no vehicle — Frozen ground and rivers make travel easier in winter than in summer, which inverts the assumption most visitors arrive with. Winter is when the country opens up

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Winter is when the country opens up
Frozen ground and rivers make travel easier in winter than in summer, which inverts the assumption most visitors arrive with.
Freeze-up and break-up are the weeks nobody moves
The transitions between ice and open water are the periods when neither boat nor snowmachine works, and they are lengthening.

Northwest Alaska: the Wulik drainageChukchi Sea coast · Northwest Arctic Borough

SettlementIndustrial siteLandform or capeInset: this frame within AlaskaEach marker links to the piece about it

Where this section sits: the Wulik drainage from the De Long Mountains to the Chukchi Sea.

Geometry: project map kit

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