After a gnarly crossing of the Harding Icefield from near the small town of Seward to the remote eastern edge of Skilak Lake on the Kenai Peninsula last week, about the last […]
Unexpected rescue
Ice surfer
Winter ice still clogs Alaska’s Kenai River, but there is a definite sign of breakup on the horizon. The phantom Ice Surfer is back.
Fog of Iditarod
As the story came to be told and grew, there was a lone hero because stories are best that way. Reality is more complex and sometimes confused by the fog of war. […]
Saboteurs and villains
Two months have passed since four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champ Seavey hired a high-power, San Francisco crisis-management firm to probe who doped his dog team in Nome last year, […]
Dangerous warmth
The weather was cooling in wild and remote Western Alaska when the body of 37-year-old Mark Kasayulie was pulled from the Kuskokwim River on New Year’s Day. His death came only days […]
Avalanche death
A highly experienced and well-known Anchorage skier has been identified by Alaska State Troopers as the man killed in a pre-Thanksgiving Day avalanche about 60 miles north of the state’s largest city. […]
Yukon manhunt
Aboard a makeshift, homemade raft, the suspect in a string of summer arsons along the Yukon River slipped past the village of Anvik after a brief, Thursday encounter with locals who told […]
Journalism’s problem
Commentary Once the artists of their day painted on the walls of caves, and art was worth nothing. This is the problem journalism faces in the Age of the Internet. Most journalism […]
Facebook hunts Alaska outlaw
Up and down the Yukon River in the wild heartland of Alaska, the warning to be on the lookout for ex-con Jerald Harrison – a man now believed to have torched four […]
Yukon madman
With the ruins of yet more cabins along the Yukon River still smoldering, some among the 178 residents of the tiny, riverside village of Grayling are reported to be standing guard as […]
