Brooks Range

It was a rainy summer in Anchorage and I had to travel north of the Arctic Circle to get my sunburn this year. In August, Jim, Jeff (Jim's cousin), and I went on a week long sheep hunt in the Brooks Range. In the past, when I got to the item on my checklist listed 'sunscreen', I would laugh and say "I wish . . . ". The weather is usually cool and rainy if you're lucky and cold and snowy if your not. This year I wished I had packed my sunscreen. We had 6 days of clear blue skies and not a drop of precipitation. It was beautiful.