Dalton Highway Field Trip, July 2006

2006_0718aImage0137.JPG 2006_0718Image0008.JPG The Yukon River 2006_0718Image0010.JPG 2006_0718Image0013.JPG Bridge for road and pipeline over the Yukon 2006_0718Image0016.JPG 2006_0718Image0025.JPG 2006_0718Image0041.JPG Fireweed, the 1st thing to come back after a forest fire 2006_0718Image0042.JPG Finger Rock 2006_0718Image0053.JPG 2006_0718Image0054.JPG The UT group 2006_0718Image0055.JPG Conglomerate outcrop 2006_0718Image0063.JPG Brooks Range in the distance 2006_0718Image0071.JPG 2006_0718Image0073.JPG 2006_0718Image0078.JPG Erin pointing out an ice lens 2006_0718Image0079.JPG The ice lens 2006_0718Image0084.JPG Some jerk killed the tree 2006_0718Image0085.JPG 2006_0718Image0086.JPG The Continental Divide 2006_0718Image0090.JPG 2006_0718Image0095.JPG 2006_0718Image0097.JPG 2006_0718Image0098.JPG 2006_0718Image0108.JPG Caribou in Deadhorse 2006_0718Image0110.JPG 2006_0718Image0124.JPG 2006_0718Image0131.JPG 2006_0718Image0134.JPG

This was a 5-day trip where a handful of us from UAF tagged along with a group from University of Texas traversing the state and looking at the geology.  We went all the way up the Dalton Highway, or "The Haul Road" to Deadhorse (Prudhoe Bay) in 5 days, 4 nights.