What brings him to Alaska?

The man was scouting locations for a future logging expedition in the spring, looking for the best routes to move the logs.

He was bound for the old claim on the left fork of Henderson Creek, where the boys were already. They had come over across the divide from the Indian Creek country, while he had come the roundabout way to take a look at the possibilities of getting out logs in the spring from the islands in the Yukon.