In 1972, on a hunting trip to a remote airstrip in Interior Alaska, the author and her husband met a miner living alone at his shuttered mine.

It was the beginning of a long friendship, and it led to the acquisition of a small, forlorn, moss-and mud-chinked log cabin that became the spiritual home for Sarah and her family. This is not an Alaska adventure of the usual sort, in which a hearty couple hews a home in the wilderness and subsists on wild game and a garden.  This is the story of an urban couple with busy professional lives who had the good fortune to spend two months every year living quietly and intimately with nature, deep within Denali National Park and Preserve. Over the years Sarah has expressed in poetry her vivid experiences and emotions connected to life in this remote setting.  Some of these poems are collected here, together with history, explanation, and images that provide context for her readers.