His route takes him through hundreds of miles of Arctic tundra. As someone who has spent time in the far north: Walking on tundra is like walking on a head of

His route takes him through hundreds of miles of Arctic tundra. As someone who has spent time in the far north: Walking on tundra is like walking on a head of cabbage that is sitting on a four-inch sponge that is floating in four inches of water. The cabbage heads are all about eight inches apart. When you step on them, they are going to twist in some unknown direction and slide your foot onto the sponge, or into the four inches of water. The really bad tundra, known as bottom, is about eight inches deep and is sitting on top of sucking mud. --http://whiterick.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/dalton-highway-caribou-hunt-tundra-torture/ http://whiterick.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/dalton-highway-car... Stepping on a tussock is like stepping on a toothbrush, Toolik scientists like to say. You try to avoid it. So tundra walking is like treading on the jostling shoulders of a million people --http://discovermagazine.com/1996/jun/runningontundra787 http://discovermagazine.com/1996/jun/runningontundra787 Tundra comes in three exciting flavors: bog tundra, high alpine tundra, and original tundra. They say walking on tundra is like walking on bowling balls covered in something squishy --http://mattylite.blogspot.com/2010/07/alaska-fact-or-fiction.html http://mattylite.blogspot.com/2010/07/alaska-fact-or-fiction... hiking on tundra forces you into a gait that is not like walking on pavement (straight up and down)... tundra is more liking walking on a waterbed... you are using lots of the accessory muscles just to keep upright --http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/showthread.php/72728-Boot-recommendations-for-September-Caribou-in-Kotz http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/showthread.php/72728-Boo... "Walking on tundra is like, is like,--tell him what it's like, Magee." "It's like walking over slippery footballs half-sunk in slime," said the Irishman promptly. --http://www.freefictionbooks.org/books/b/23082-the-boy-with-the-u-s-survey-by-rolt-wheeler?start=110 http://www.freefictionbooks.org/books/b/23082-the-boy-with-t... For those of you who haven't walked across the tundra it is a giant sponge. When you walk your foot sinks and you have to lift it really high to get the next step, as some put it..walking on tundra is like walking on a giant stair stepper. --http://nicholiepoki03.blogspot.com/2011/09/week-to-remember.html http://nicholiepoki03.blogspot.com/2011/09/week-to-remember.... walking on the tundra can be a miserable experience. extremely uneven (kinda like walking on basketballs), wet, and full of holes. make sure you have good waterproof footwear with good ankle support rolling an ankle is very easy on this stuff. --http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/showthread.php/115323-Trekking-Poles-on-the-Tundra http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/showthread.php/115323-Tr...