Today I’m posting some pictures from my first trip up the Dalton Highway to see the North Slope of Alaska and fish for arctic grayling along the way.  This was at the beginning of September in 2007.  Most of the pictures are on Troutnut.com, but I had several that weren’t related to rivers or fishing, so I put some of them here.

Granite tor at Finger Mountain
This is a popular restroom stop and photo site in between the Yukon River and the Brooks Range.

View north from Finger Mountain

As far north as the red trees go
Beyond here, only the trees with yellow fall colors grew, and the remaining red was on the ground in the form of little shrubs.

Spruce grouse

Not your usual road signs

Mountain in the Brooks Range

The Dalton Highway, also known as the “haul road,” winds through some amazing mountains north of Coldfoot.

The Philip Smith Mountains
The mountains in the background are in ANWR (the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge).

A musk-ox standoff?
Nah, these two were just facing each other while chewing.

Sandhill cranes and the pipeline

The Arctic coastal plain
This is one of the prettiest flat-as-a-pancake places in the world.

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