Off to Tok, Alaska and another border crossing. Tok, pronounced “Toke” is about 150 miles. A welcome drive after yesterday’s slog.

There is a small grass airfield immediately adjacent to our campground here in Koidern and several helicopters are buzzing around this AM, ferrying a team of 9 to a site where they are drilling core samples and looking for a gold deposit in the mountains west of here. Spoke with two female geologists last night around the campfire.They said that if concentrations of 1/2 ounce of gold per ton of ore could make a viable undertaking.