Fort Yukon is a trashy little village in the middle of the wet marshy Yukon Flats. It has a population of about 675, making it the largest settlement of Athabaskan Indians in Alaska. The town is accessible only by plane or, I suppose, by boat on the Yukon River. It sits 8 miles north of the Arctic Circle, about 150 miles NNW of Fairbanks. There is precious little to do.
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| We camped at the edge of the Fort Yukon airstrip |
We fixed our first trail dinner - chicken and dumplings, on a gravel corner of the airstrip, drank 4 liters [it was one 3 liter box] of wine, had a smoke, generally acted crazy for a few hours, and then went down in our sleeping bags in a completely disorganized manner.
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