Thru-Hiking Alaska’s Arctic: A 1,000 Mile Solo Traverse

You are Amazing!

This is the essence of living.

Thank You.

Bravo Kristin! I heard about your trip here on BPL from Peter Vacco and followed along on your blog. I was hoping you'd write it up at some point so I could live vicariously through your adventure. The courage to go out there – WAY out there – by yourself, for so long, is worthy of recognition. This one belongs in the same rarefied air as Skurka's Alaska-Yukon Expedition or Dave Turner spending 34 days alone on Cerro Escudo. My hat is off to you.

Awesome

Congrats. Just all sorts of awesome pictures.

Well Done!!

Wow, simply wow. Thank you so much for sharing.

(and, i feel i've just fallen in love in many ways)

Wow. Bravo!
Envious and in awe…

Wow! What a great hike and well told tale.

What an excellent adventure! A great reminder that "the dream" needs to be big enough to fill the landscape, and that those places still exist.

One of the best articles I've read here at BPL. Well done!

for a beautiful story and for sharing your adventure with us.

Wow. Thank you.
Joshua

well that was an extraordinary read. Just an amazing journey – thank you for sharing it with us! It is a trip I cannot even imagine tackling.

As I plot my escape from my beige box, this was inspiring to read. :)

Kristin,

It was very inspriring and encouraging to read your trip report. The Brooks Range is one of the next hikes I'm targeting. I won't be able to take off more than three weeks (may be max four), so a complete traverse is most likely not in my near future. Watching Buck Nelson's (he is also a BPL member) video about his solo 1000 mile traverse of the Brooks Range and reading your trip report makes me want to grab my backpack with my Alpacka and go.

Congratulations on a great adventure!

Manfred

You are courageous and resourceful. How about a book?

A brilliant trip. For those who can't access the article you can read her detailed blog entries here,

http://kristingates.wordpress.com/

Thanks again to Peter Vacco for telling us about her journey earlier.

http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display.html?forum_thread_id=78934

One of the best ever shared on BPL!

I too was in Kotzebue this summer. A group of us paddled the Kokolik River with high hopes of seeing lots of caribou and muskox. Hiking across the tussocks well pass midnight planted the seed of hiking the Brooks Range some day. You are an inspiration and I need to seriously give thought to this seed.

This was excellent. Congratulations on your planning and hard work culminating in success. Thank you, too, for your write-up. A story well worth sharing, and you told it well.

Great trip, I'm getting off the sofa and going to the mountains for a hike.

My jaw is still dropped. What a journey! You're an amazing woman.

Thanks for a most excellent trip report. You are one amazing young lady.

Simply awesome. And, a well written story.