Saturday it was a crisp, clear afternoon and the sun was shining on the freshly fallen snow, so we got out our skis and went for our first ski in Arctic Village. There is not a lot of snow yet, but there is enough of a ground cover to ski. We skied the roads through the village from our house out to the airport.
As we approached the airport, someone driving down the road on a 4-wheeler briefly slowed down and shouted, "hundreds of Caribou at the airport." When we got to the airport, this is what we saw...
Across the runway hundreds of caribou were running, walking and stopping to graze. We spent over two hours just watching the caribou. They kept coming and coming! We literally saw hundreds of them come up from the river and cross the runway.
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