A soft-spoken, rail-thin Anchorage musician and author once Alaska famous as one of the hardest of hard men on the Iditarod Trail is dead at the age of 66. Shawn Lyons for […]
Trail’s end
Bad wind rising
With new, loose snow more than a foot deep in the mountains that shade Anchorage and hurricane-force winds in the forecast for Monday evening, Alaska’s largest city appeared poised to be clobbered […]
Bears among us
Only a year after a predatory black bear killed a 16-year-old runner on Bird Ridge, a 44-year-old hiker is reported to have been killed by a grizzly bear 20 miles […]
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 […]
Glorious warmth
The season of the snow looks to finally have been beaten back in Alaska. After a cold and wet Memorial Day weekend that left the Chugach Mountains above the state’s largest city […]
Deadly tech?
Alaska adventurer Tim Kelley has a theory as to what might have happened to 26-year-old Nephi Soper, whose body was found floating on a sheet of ice on Tanaina Lake in the […]
Do not inhale
Puffy, itchy eyes; sinus headaches and a general sense of malaise hit many in Alaska’s largest city on Saturday as the dark side of global warming showed its face in a spring […]
Ginormous rain storm coming
All remnants of the winter that really wasn’t in Alaska’s largest city appear ready to be washed away in a climatic blender. Kiss it goodbye you who love this time of year […]
The search for Nephi ends
Hiker Nephi Soper joined the many gone missing in the Alaska wild on Wednesday. Hopes of finding the 26-year-old specialist in the Alaska National Guard had been dimming with the passing of […]
No sign of Nephi yet
A third-day of searching for a hiker gone missing in the Front Range of the Chugach Mountains within sight of Alaska’s largest city appears to have ended with no sign of Nephi […]
