Late Kenai River angler Les Anderson’s world record king salmon of 97 pounds, 4 ounces might stand forever if the work of Jan Ohlberger and other researchers at the University of Washington […]
Shrinking salmon
Iditarod dangers
Back home in Minnesota now with the memory of a near-death experience along the Iditarod Trail unlikely to fade for a long, long time, Scott Hoberg finds himself a man deeply […]
The lone rouleur
The winds were starting in the high country when fat-tired cyclist Neil Beltchenko left the cluster of log buildings that is The Perrins Rainy Pass Lodge on the shore of Puntilla Lake […]
A winner
The pedaling publisher from Colorado rolled into the Kuskokwim River outpost of McGrath on Wednesday afternoon to win the 350-mile version of the Iditarod Trail Invitational. He promptly dived under warm sheets. […]
Pedaling publisher
A blogger from somebody’s basement was leading Alaska’s premier fat bike race into the Alaska Range on Monday. OK, maybe somebody more than a blogger. Thirty-year-old Neil Beltchenko from Crested Butte, Colo. […]
Idit-a-nomics
With the cold of night settling over the Alaska Range Sunday and flowing down the Yentna River drainage into Susitna Valley, a long line of cyclists, runners and a few skiers […]
Go play
With less than five weeks to go until the first day of spring, winter has finally arrived on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, though the wilderness playground south of the state’s largest city remains […]
Iditarod unrest
As the leaders in the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race were racing toward a halfway stop in the famed gold-mining town of Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada on Wednesday, the […]
Overreach
An Alaskan who 35 years ago led a push to repeal the state’s subsistence priority law because he thought it a bad way to allocate wild, fish and game resources is […]
Blue-eyed halibut
Virtual river flatfish runs wild in Alaska
