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WHERE THE MOUNTAINS MEET THE PACIFIC
Ocean, ice, rivers and place names reveal Howe Sound as a continuous landscape, from sea level to the Coast Mountains.
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Atlas — 2 min read
A LINE WATER CANNOT CROSS
A drainage divide can be almost invisible on foot. In the Brooks Range, it changes where water goes and how people move.
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Field Notes — 2 min read
THE WEATHER WINDOW
A weather window depends on the aircraft, terrain, route and timing. A regional forecast is only the beginning.
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Atlas — 2 min read
THERE IS NO EMPTY LAND
Place names and histories around Howe Sound reveal what a map can omit when a landscape appears empty.
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Field Notes — 2 min read
WHEN THE RIVER WAS THE ROAD
Along the Yukon and its tributaries, waterways and trails shaped movement long before highways changed the connections.
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THE HORSE CHANGES THE DISTANCE
An old packhorse trail above Fry Creek opens a different way to think about terrain, distance and the needs of an animal.
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BEFORE THE MAP WAS FINISHED
Punch Dickins and the problem of flying north
Punch Dickins’s northern flights reveal an aviation problem shaped as much by missing information as by distance.
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