Around August 10, 1986, my friends and I got into a winter- like storm/ blizzard at Porcupine lake, at upper Ivishak River headwaters, perhaps 50 miles east of the Haul Road and a few miles north of the Continental Divide. My friend later indicated they’d measured greater than 100 mile/ hour winds at Toolik, and we’d been stuck in tents out in the open at higher elevation. Temperature had dropped to about 5 above and it dumped around a foot of snow— not your typical August day even for the Brooks Range. We had to drag our boats and all our stuff about 10 miles to the Ivishak, which took several days. I thought, darn, there goes my beautiful Fairbanks garden including my cantaloupe. But after that remarkable trip, returning south we entered summer again at the Continental Divide— Interior Alaska’s summer was still alive and well, including my cantaloupe! You enter a different world at the Brooks Range’s Continental Divide.