A week ago, a 66-year-old woman from Fairbanks did the seemingly impossible to become the first great-grandmother to win the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous Open World Championship Sled Dog Race – once the […]
A trail for old men?
Alaska cooling
When cyclist Jim Ishman pushed through Ptarmigan Pass in the Alaska Range this week, he got a taste of the polar opposite of his home back in Fruita, Colo. There on […]
A survivor’s tale
Too late Cody Johnson realized he was riding on thin ice over the cold water of the South Fork Kuskokwim River deep in the heart of the Alaska Range. Rolling fast on […]
Net fisheries win
Commercial fishermen looking to cast their salmon-snagging gillnets wider in Cook Inlet appear to have won the hearts of the members of the Alaska Board of Fisheries. The state regulatory authority was […]
McGrath happy man
After the cold, the wind, the sideways blowing snow and lots and lots and lots of bad trail, Idaho’s Jay Petervary pedaled his fat-tired bike into the tiny, Interior Alaska community of […]
Salmon sell out
News commentary All Alaskans should be embarrassed by what we have allowed to become of the salmon of Cook Inlet. Suffice to say, this is our Columbia River disaster. All that is missing […]
Third-time charm?
Taking advantage of ever better trail, Idaho fat-tired cyclist Jay Petervary looks on his way to a third victory in the Iditarod Trail Invitational. He was closing on the McGrath finish line […]
Gang of three
No rest awaited the weary as the fat-tired bikes of the Iditarod Trail Invitational on Tuesday rolled into the remote checkpoint of Rohn deep in the Alaska Range. Colorado’s Neil Beltchenko, an […]
Idit-a-trudge
If you think you had a rough night, forget it and turn your attention to the leaders of Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Invitational, the world’s toughest winter race. They spent most of […]
Iditarod grueling
Things were not so happy as competitors in the Iditarod Trail Invitational, the toughest Iditarod race, wallowed through deep, sugary snow on Monday night high in the Happy Valley of the Alaska […]
