The Barren Lands - Terra

Approaching a wolf den - uninhabited

Mid July - autumn colours beginning to appear

Hill carpeted with red bear berries

"The Hill" - the camp landmark

Our guide, Bill, with friend


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Tallest free-standing structure in the Barrens (that we saw) - as much as 2,000 years old

Our tent at the main camp

Catherine in her domain

Catherine on the tundra

A kettle lake on the esker - these can be as much as 300 feet deep

A view from the Hill

Another view from the Hill

Above the tree line, eskers are oases where pine forests can grow

Another kettle lake

Water and sky

More water and sky

The main camp

Muskox skull

Pine on the esker

More pines

Lone pine

The camp is 2 hours by air from YK

small river on the tundra

The south camp, at the south end of Whitefish Lake

Sky and water

Sunset - 10:30 PM

Sunset

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