Land of otherworldly adventures KNIK GLACIER – Standing at the face of a 125-square-mile river of ice on Saturday, talking to public-minded businessman Mark Johnson (yes, it is possible to be […]
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Riding into Wonderland
SPENCER GLACIER – The jagged, unnamed and snow-covered peaks of the Kenai Mountains clawed at a perfectly blue sky on Saturday leaving snowmachine-touring visitors from that world outside Alaska in awe and […]
Face of adventure
Battered, brutalized and in the end beaten by the cold and wind of Alaska’s Bering Sea coast, one of the toughest men ever to trod the Iditarod Trail was on a plane back […]
Secret season
SPENCER GLACIER – The April sun was bright in the Placer River valley east of Alaska’s largest city on Tuesday making the air feel warmer and the wilderness friendlier than the 27-degree […]
Burn, burn, burn
Fat-tired cyclists on the Iditarod Trail in what was once the Farewell Burn/Craig Medred photo The grueling Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, “a brutal test of tenacity and stamina,” is off this […]
Snow fun season
For Gulf Coast Alaska, March stormed in like, well, maybe not quite a lion but at least a lynx, the feline evolved for the northland. The snow flew and temperatures dropped. Along […]
COVID’s upside?
What if one of the side effects of the SARS-Co-V-2 pandemic was to make some people healthier? Crazy as it sounds, there is some reason to believe this could be happening. The […]
Ultimate isolation
Some good news on the COVID-19 front for Alaskans who love the outdoors. Both the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the state Department of Health and Social Services now say […]
Mean mother
With more dog mushers needing rescue on Friday and some competitors in the muscle-powered Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI) pulled off the route, 2020 will go down as the year Mother Nature bit […]
On thin ice
Twenty-three-year-old Alaska newcomer Nate Newland challenged the glacier gods on Sunday by venturing inside the westward migrating ice at the head of the Knik River; luckily he lived to tell about the […]
