KONGAKUT RIVER, AK - Camp IX: Icy Reef; Bobby watches the Helio Courier as it roars along the beach we cleared to take off and haul Lindsay, Sune and a load of gear off Icy Reef.

KONGAKUT RIVER, AK - Camp IX: Icy Reef; Instead of packing up and hauling our gear a mile down Icy Reef to the existing landing area, we packed up and cleared the beach to make our own landing area.

KONGAKUT RIVER, AK - Camp IX: Icy Reef; Lindsay takes some time to do some yoga on a log of driftwood.

KONGAKUT RIVER, AK - Camp IX: Icy Reef; Bobby gets a little excited as we spot a seal on the sea ice.

KONGAKUT RIVER, AK - Camp IX: Icy Reef; Sune and Lindsay make a Fourth of July dessert: coconut pudding with red and blue m&m's.

KONGAKUT RIVER, AK - Camp IX: Icy Reef; Fourth of July activities included shooting the .454 at Sune's broken iPod. Natalie hit the screen, my shot is just to the right.

KONGAKUT RIVER, AK - Camp IX: Icy Reef; Fourth of July celebrations start with carving a mullet out of Nathaniels poofy hair. Bobby uses sissors from his first aid kit.

KONGAKUT RIVER, AK - Camp IX: Icy Reef; The late sun burning through the mist over the fragmented pack ice of the arctic ocean.

KONGAKUT RIVER, AK - Camp IX: Icy Reef; A fogbow is like a rainbow but because the water droplets that cause it are so small (less than 0.05mm) the colors are very weak.

KONGAKUT RIVER, AK - Camp IX: Icy Reef; After we got camp set up we carried our boats over Icy Reef to the Arctic Ocean for an afternoon paddle amongst the broken up pack ice.

KONGAKUT RIVER, AK - Camp IX: Icy Reef; Shortly after we landed on Icy Reef we found the massive tracks of Ursus maritimus, polar bear. We all stood in awe for a few moments while we processed that we were truely in polar bear country.

KONGAKUT RIVER, AK - Camp VIII - Camp IX; Past the fog.