Here are some pictures and comments from participants in our 1998 visits to the Hood River in the Canadian Arctic. Two groups of ten graduate and undergraduate students from around the U.S. and Canada each spent four weeks along the Hood River as participants in Arctic Field Ecology, a field course offered by the University of Minnesota.

Preparing to leave the St. Paul campus for the first trip.

Fall colors in mid August. Arctic rubraon the Bathurst Lowlands near Wilberforce Hills.

Paul Pfaff checks out Wilberforce Falls from the west side of the river.

Sun shining through the haze created by forest fires burning to the south of the treeline.

Lee Turner measures up to a big Grizzly bear print.