The epitome of the ‘Big, Wild Life’ The legendary Dick Griffith, a man who inspired a generation of Alaska adventurers, has gone off on that last grand adventure that awaits us all. […]
Alaska’s finest
Liar, liar
And the questions unasked Long, long ago, an already old Alaska adventurer by the name of Dick Griffith met up with a group of Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic racers standing on […]
Know nothin’
A long time has passed since Dick Griffith, a legendary Alaska outdoor adventurer now in his 90s, observed that “you young guys….eat too much and you don’t know nothin’.” As a journalist […]
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 […]
