Alaska’s most famous trail, a trail that owes its place in history to the dogs, will largely be given over to men and machines this year. With the now internationally recognized […]
Judging mountains
The wind was driving snow sideways across the mountains above Alaska’s largest city again on Thursday when the email arrived from Chugach National Forest Trail technician Irene Lindquist noting the high […]
For the dogs
Commentary Frank Turner is a 69-year-old musher from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada with a new idea – a radical new idea – to make life better for the dogs in Alaska’s two […]
Whose fault is it?
Commentary Updated: This story was updated on Feb. 14 to include a 2007 dog death in the team of then rookie Quest musher Brent Sass. For the second year in a row, Eureka’s […]
Cue the debate
Alaska Sen. Cathy Giessel, a conservatively fiscal Anchorage Republican, has introduced legislation to up the fee on ice-gripping, motor-vehicle tire studs from $5 to $75 in the 49th state, thus fueling the […]
Abbie-normal AK
Just when it looked like the old normal was returning to the far north after a couple of winters that left Alaskans wondering if serious winter warming was the new normal, […]
Fish war on?
After the smallest Kenai River dipnet catch in eight years, there are hints that the little people of Alaska’s urban core might at last be arriving at the realization that they are […]
Last Great Race
Tough Iditarod Trail
deemed “unsafe”
Glacier dams Knik
A lobe of the Knik Glacier has cut off the flow of the river of the same name near Palmer, Alaska, leaving some recent visitors to the remote headwaters wondering if a […]
Ethiconomics
Ode to Abbie Hoffman’s counter-culture best seller: “Steal This Book.”
