For the fourth year running, the grandest Dingo Vacation of 2019 was Lupe’s six week journey to the far N! The Carolina Dog faced unique challenges and disappointments this time around, yet there were plenty of successes, too.
The Most High Exalted Dingo of the Arctic Sisterhood managed to return to the Arctic Circle, but got no farther N. Turned back by a blizzard that ruined peakbagging plans in the nearby Richardson Mountains along the Yukon and Northwest Territories border, Lupe retreated S before heading to Alaska.
In Alaska, Lupe faced the opposite problem. Forest fires filled the air with smoke, ruining views and often forcing cancellation of anticipated ascents completely.
The American Dingo persevered, though! She saw Denali from Peak 4500 on K’esugi Ridge, visited the Root Glacier in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, braved the winds of Wolverine Peak, and climbed mighty Matanuska Peak in the Chugach Mountains. Before it was all over, she’d walked an ocean beach along Cook Inlet, explored the beautiful Racing River, and been stalked by Death at Donjek Crossing Mountain.
From the Canadian Rockies to the Arctic Circle, if the call of the wild and spirit of adventure are in you, too, Lupe trusts you’ll find something you’ll enjoy here.
2019 Yukon Territory & Alaska Adventure Index
Tangle Falls to Tangle Ridge, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada (8-7-19)
Yukon Bound – Getting Nowhere on the Long Road North (8-8-19 to 8-10-19)
Mount Lorne, Yukon Territory, Canada (8-11-19)
Sourdough Hill & Mount Hinton, Yukon Territory, Canada (8-14-19)
Mount Haldane, Yukon Territory, Canada (8-15-19)
Ditching the Dempster & Doing Domes Yukon Territory & Alaska (8-18-19)
Lost Chicken Hill & Mount Fairplay, Alaska (8-19-19)
Along the Shoup Bay Trail to see the Kittiwake Rookery & Shoup Glacier, Alaska (8-20-19 & 8-21-19)
Syncline Mountain, Talkeetna Range, Alaska (8-22-19)
K’esugi Ridge: Little Coal Creek to Peak 4500, Denali State Park, Alaska (8-24-19)
Crazy Notch Ridge, Alaska Range, Alaska (8-26-19)
Whistle Ridge, Alaska (8-27-19)
East Glacier Gap Mountain, Amphitheater Mountains, Alaska (8-28-19)
Swede Mountain, Alaska (8-29-19)
Wolverine Peak, Chugach State Park, Alaska (9-1-19)
Peak 4790 & Peak 4403, Hayes Range, Amphitheater Mountains, Alaska (9-2-19)
Matanuska Peak, Chugach Range, Alaska (9-5-19)
Donjek Crossing Mountain, Yukon Territory, Canada (9-9-19)
Montana Mountain, Yukon Territory, Canada (9-11-19)
Along the Racing River & the Long Road Home, Canada (9-12-19 thru 9-15-19)
