Before ice-covered Portage Lake east of Alaska’s largest city came alive this week, skater Paxson Woelber heard the ominous crack of a glacier near its head as did the acquaintance standing […]
All cracked up
News fiction
Some days now it’s hard to avoid wondering if I’m a fool for believing anything printed in the New York Times. Old habits die hard, and most journalists who grew up in […]
Moto-roulette
Sunny weather brought snowmachine riders out to play in Alaska’s Turnagain Pass over the weekend. Thankfully no one died in the tumble of human-triggered avalanches that followed. The Chugach National Forest […]
Danger times
Just about this time last year, the Kenai Mountains claimed the life of 29-year-old Tyler Kloos in an avalanche, and on Thursday Chugach National Forest Service officials were warning of danger building again […]
Icelandia calls
Just as residents of the land of the midnight sun began gearing up for The Great Alaska Sportsman Show – an annual rite in preparation for the short season of long days […]
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 […]
Stay home!
Winds that gusted to near 100 mph in the Kenai Mountains south of Anchorage on Thursday had died down by this morning and heavy snows were easing, but the Chugach National Forest […]
Go play
With less than five weeks to go until the first day of spring, winter has finally arrived on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, though the wilderness playground south of the state’s largest city remains […]
Snow, nooooo
Yet again, Mother Nature is messing with urban Alaskans who love that classic White Christmas punctuated with the roar of engines and the sweet smell of two-cycle engine exhaust. A lack […]
Bear spray works
No bears were in evidence on Saturday when Mark Price from Seward returned to the scene of his frightening, early October grizzly encounter, and this time he had the comfort of a […]
