On a day-to-day basis in Alaska, human survival sometimes still comes down to three basic factors that trace their roots back to the species’ prehistory: situational awareness, judgment and tools. About all […]
Stayin’ alive
Iditarod, take two
If Alaska’s largest newspaper is to be believed, you can now add the so-called “Last Great Race” to the filmed events of which you must ask “is it real or is it […]
Snow fun season
For Gulf Coast Alaska, March stormed in like, well, maybe not quite a lion but at least a lynx, the feline evolved for the northland. The snow flew and temperatures dropped. Along […]
Frozen good fun
Somewhere in the frozen wilds north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, former Canadian Olympian Lindsay Gauld is dreaming of the Iditarod Trail (ITI). Before a global pandemic changed everything, this was to be […]
Clickbaiting
Alaska’s largest newspaper is once again pushing – knowingly or unknowingly – the economic nonsense pitched by a mouthpiece for the state’s commercial fishing industry. “One Alaska king salmon is worth the […]
New world order
As commercial fishermen in Alaska’s Cook Inlet continue to beat the dead horse of “maximum sustained yield (MSY),” the world of seafood is evolving at the speed of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. China’s […]
Trail’s end
A soft-spoken, rail-thin Anchorage musician and author once Alaska famous as one of the hardest of hard men on the Iditarod Trail is dead at the age of 66. Shawn Lyons for […]
Killer chute
The three men killed in a Tuesday avalanche just north of Alaska’s largest city appear to have been driven more than 1,500 feet down a steep couloir by a shallow layer of […]
Deadly terrain
On Monday, Matt Tunseth, an out-of-work journalist in Anchorage, posted on his Facebook page a photograph of avalanche rubble on the flanks of the city’s most climbed mountain with a warning to […]
Going polar
Tens of thousands of feet above the Arctic, the earth’s stratosphere has gone nuts, and the results are being widely felt. Heavy snows buried the Midwest and Great Lakes regions over the […]
