Archdeacon Hudson Stuck, the man who organized the first successful ascent of North America’s tallest mountain in 1913, once observed that the best thing one man can give another in Alaska is […]
Seeing trail dog
AK hard men
Neither fans nor ceremony greeted Jay Cable and Tom Moran when they crossed the finish line of Alaska’s most formidable race earlier this month. There was only the deep satisfaction of mission […]
Water kills again
The growing Alaska sport of packrafting has tragically added to the number of drowning victims in America’s largest national park this year. Officials in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve along […]
AK-pocalypse
Dear pussy bedwetters, Times are tough in Alaska. Global warming is over. The next Ice Age is on the horizon. The oil rush is history. You’re not going to get rich quick […]
The transformer
Thirty-six years ago this summer, Anchorage’s Dick Griffith blew up an inflatable boat on the east bank of the Kenai Peninsula’s Skilak River and set in motion a chain of […]
