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Bicycling 2,000 miles to Alaska
Into the Brooks Range of Alaska
BIO
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John Stember
John Stember
RECENT
Heavy Metal on Blackfeet
Montana Drag Wrestling
Fighting Oligarchy
nyt Yellowstone Protest
nyt Federal Layoffs
nyt Grizzly Bears
"I Don't Want to Talk About it"
Montana’s Childcare Gap
Learning Through Buffalo
GLP-1s, A New Shot at Weight Loss
Missouri Photo Workshop
PORTFOLIO
LONGTERM
Grizzly Bears Moving onto the Great Plains
Historical Archive on Rural America
Making Home
Air Force Initiation
FUN
Midnight Sun
Camera Trapping on Blackfeet Nation
Rodeo
COMMERCIAL
Granite Gear
Free Press Fest
Aerie Backcountry Medicine
EXPEDITIONS
Bicycling 2,000 miles to Alaska
Into the Brooks Range of Alaska
BIO
Email me
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Heavy Metal on Blackfeet
Montana Drag Wrestling
Fighting Oligarchy
nyt Yellowstone Protest
nyt Federal Layoffs
nyt Grizzly Bears
"I Don't Want to Talk About it"
Montana’s Childcare Gap
Learning Through Buffalo
GLP-1s, A New Shot at Weight Loss
Missouri Photo Workshop
PORTFOLIO
Folder: LONGTERM
Back
Grizzly Bears Moving onto the Great Plains
Historical Archive on Rural America
Making Home
Air Force Initiation
Folder: FUN
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Midnight Sun
Camera Trapping on Blackfeet Nation
Rodeo
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Granite Gear
Free Press Fest
Aerie Backcountry Medicine
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Bicycling 2,000 miles to Alaska
Into the Brooks Range of Alaska
BIO
Email me
A typical campsite in a rural town's public park. View fullsize
Bicycling mileage varied from 40-100 miles per day depending primarily on wind and temperatures early in the trip. View fullsize
Gordon invited me over for conversation in small town Streeter, North Dakota. My favorite piece of bike touring is the people you meet. View fullsize
Cooking dinner on a small portable stove after a long day of riding with barefeet. View fullsize
Tracy offered me food, a lift, and a place to setup my tent for the night at Teddy Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. She studied ancestral living skills and recently competed on the survival show, Alone. View fullsize
Another example of an interesting place to sleep for a night somewhere on the prairie. View fullsize
Lunch in a field. View fullsize
An old church along the road. View fullsize
An old one-room jail along the High Line in Montana. View fullsize
My friends Anna and Walter joined the bike tour to Alaska near Glacier National Park. View fullsize
A roadside view of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta or British Columbia. View fullsize
Finding a hidden place to sleep for the night. View fullsize
A glacial lake in the Canadian Rockies. View fullsize
Riding into town near Canmore, AB. View fullsize
Walter had to get the photograph at famous Lake Louise. View fullsize
Our first sign that we were getting closer and headed in the right direction. Alaska! View fullsize
A farming family kindly let us stay in a warm cabin during a wet spell in British Columbia. View fullsize
One of many places we stayed for free along the bike tour. View fullsize
The leaves started to show their fall colors along the infamous Highway of Tears between Prince George and Print Rupert, BC. View fullsize
Our first sign that winter was on its way was a surprise snowstorm that dropped six inches of snow overnight in the Rockies. View fullsize
Shortly after Anna’s hospital visit from the bike accident, we boarded the ferry system from Prince Rupert for Juneau. View fullsize
The Inside Passage ferry system shuttles visitors and even cars from Washington all the way to Southeast Alaska. View fullsize
A beautiful sunrise from the top deck of the ferry along the Inside Passage. View fullsize
The ferry ride from British Columbia was serene and beautiful. It took only a few days to reach Alaska. View fullsize
Walter and I reluctantly decide to leave Anna behind to heal in Juneau after her bike accident and continue riding onwards from Haines to Anchorage. View fullsize
Walter setting up Settlers of Catan at a rest stop near Haines, Alaska. View fullsize
Walter and I met Linda at a rest stop along the side of the road and she invited us to stay at her extra cabin nearby for the night. View fullsize
Up close and personal with grizzly bears feeding on salmon with impromptu tour guide Linda outside of Haines. View fullsize
A public use cabin Walter and I shared with a fox for a night in the Yukon. View fullsize
A bluebird day of bicycling on an empty road in the Yukon. View fullsize
A sunrise lights the mountains near Kluane National Park. View fullsize
Walter and I finished the final stretch of the bike tour by hitch-hiking because of cold temperatures and snow in Interior Alaska. View fullsize
A typical campsite in a rural town's public park.
Bicycling mileage varied from 40-100 miles per day depending primarily on wind and temperatures early in the trip.
Gordon invited me over for conversation in small town Streeter, North Dakota. My favorite piece of bike touring is the people you meet.
Cooking dinner on a small portable stove after a long day of riding with barefeet.
Tracy offered me food, a lift, and a place to setup my tent for the night at Teddy Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. She studied ancestral living skills and recently competed on the survival show, Alone.
Another example of an interesting place to sleep for a night somewhere on the prairie.
Lunch in a field.
An old church along the road.
An old one-room jail along the High Line in Montana.
My friends Anna and Walter joined the bike tour to Alaska near Glacier National Park.
A roadside view of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta or British Columbia.
Finding a hidden place to sleep for the night.
A glacial lake in the Canadian Rockies.
Riding into town near Canmore, AB.
Walter had to get the photograph at famous Lake Louise.
Our first sign that we were getting closer and headed in the right direction. Alaska!
A farming family kindly let us stay in a warm cabin during a wet spell in British Columbia.
One of many places we stayed for free along the bike tour.
The leaves started to show their fall colors along the infamous Highway of Tears between Prince George and Print Rupert, BC.
Our first sign that winter was on its way was a surprise snowstorm that dropped six inches of snow overnight in the Rockies.
Shortly after Anna’s hospital visit from the bike accident, we boarded the ferry system from Prince Rupert for Juneau.
The Inside Passage ferry system shuttles visitors and even cars from Washington all the way to Southeast Alaska.
A beautiful sunrise from the top deck of the ferry along the Inside Passage.
The ferry ride from British Columbia was serene and beautiful. It took only a few days to reach Alaska.
Walter and I reluctantly decide to leave Anna behind to heal in Juneau after her bike accident and continue riding onwards from Haines to Anchorage.
Walter setting up Settlers of Catan at a rest stop near Haines, Alaska.
Walter and I met Linda at a rest stop along the side of the road and she invited us to stay at her extra cabin nearby for the night.
Up close and personal with grizzly bears feeding on salmon with impromptu tour guide Linda outside of Haines.
A public use cabin Walter and I shared with a fox for a night in the Yukon.
A bluebird day of bicycling on an empty road in the Yukon.
A sunrise lights the mountains near Kluane National Park.
Walter and I finished the final stretch of the bike tour by hitch-hiking because of cold temperatures and snow in Interior Alaska.