29 June 2003: Day-22, Total-23; Miles-45, Total-823-
Chuck
Again, we are floating down the mighty Yukon and I'm
trying to get today's journal entry ready to send off at the next stop,
Fort Yukon.
It is a great day, not a cloud in the sky, light breeze, temps in the
70's, fast current and booms & splashes from undercut banks crashing
into the river.
Today we are tracking our exact position by GPS. We will be crossing
the Arctic Circle in an hour or so and want to note the momentous event.
Bingo, we just arrived at a North Latitude of 66 degrees, 33 minutes.
At this point, the sun never sets during the summer solstice and even
more days in more northerly latitudes.
The Yukon River is now moving Northwest, at Fort Yukon it will turn
more westerly for about 50 miles, then turn Southwest and go below the
Arctic Circle. It will continue SW for hundreds of miles before turning
NW for its final dash into the Bering Sea, about 1400 river miles from
here.