After flying all night from Alaska, I have made it home to Denver. I am so excited to see my wife, Kitty and my baby boy, Holt. He is only 9 weeks old today but he gave me a big smile when we were…
This is an artist's idea of what the area around the Bering land bridge may have looked like at the closing of the last ice age about 12,000 years ago. The artist, Jay Matternes, included many…
Check out this video which shows where on the globe we'll be going on our Arctic expedition.
http://www.polartrec.com/files/members/karl-horeis/files/journal_11814_introvideo2.mp4
This musk ox skull must have weighed 20 pounds. The males start growing their horns when they are about a year old and they keep growing throughout their lives.
Musk oxen are huge, woolly beasts!…
Today Roy Stehle from SRI International in San Francisco came to Fairbanks to teach us how to use satellite phones on our expeditions. We'll use these not only for phone calls but also to send emails…
We are learning so much as we prepare for our expeditions! The organizers at ARCUS have brought back several teachers who participated in past expeditions and they have been very helpful. Jeff…
Yesterday afternoon we got to go to the Polar Field warehouse where we looked at some of the gear we'll use on our Arctic Expeditions. Robbie Score of CH2M Hill will be issuing gear to each of us for…
A beautiful week in Fairbanks, Alaska!
Orientation for my upcoming Arctic Expedition is going great! Fairbanks is gorgeous when the sun is out – bare birch trees this time of year and dark, skinny…
