Wildlife spotting on the Alaska Highway

A lot of people think I'm crazy because more often than not I'm out here by myself. The Dene people were very nomadic in the way they lived their lives. From a very young age my father was very much adventurous, often had a camera himself. Some of my fondest memories of being a child are traveling up and down the Alaska Highway with my father. Once you drive north from Fort Nelson along the Alaska Highway you start entering the northern Rocky Mountains or the Muskoka-Chika area, well regarded as the Serengeti of North America because of its abundance of wildlife. You can be somewhere right on the highway and still have those moments that take your breath away or you feel fortunate because probably not a lot of people have been able to experience that themselves. It also brings you back to a sense of awareness where you're not concerned with anything else outside of exactly what you're doing and what you're seeing at that moment. That's why I keep coming back out here. That's a major reason why I keep actively pursuing wildlife, landscapes, the northern lights. In those moments, those unique moments, I often find myself telling a grizzly bear or a moose or a wild animal that I often tell them, which means thank you for the moment. It's kind of a unique connection that you really can't explain until you experience it firsthand. One of the benefits of being able to capture and photograph this area is being able to expose it and explain to the world how important this area is to conserve just for future generations to be able to experience truly wild, untamed, and unscripted wilderness the way it was meant to be.