Johnson Pass Trail – Aside from the noisy crunch of fat tires on rough, white pavement and the Paris-Roubaix-like bouncing of the bike at speed, the riding here Saturday on one of […]
Dew point
Travel meltdown
The March equinox arrived on Wednesday to end the Alaska winter just as the weather appeared to be doing its best to wreck the best of the Alaska spring. Normally this would […]
All cracked up
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 […]
Peace at last
Once upon a time in Alaska, cross-country skiers and winter cyclists were at each other’s throats. Bikes, it was said, booby-trapped groomed skinny trails with narrow, snake-like ruts waiting to grab the […]
Warm-aska
Here we go again Alaska, if weather guru Judah Cohen of Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) has it right. Get out the rain gear and the cleats for those walkways and roads […]
Gone moo
On the shoulders of the Chugach Mountains high above Alaska’s largest city, a hunt is underway for Betsy the cow. Many places in the U.S., this would not be news, but there […]
Lumen wars
No bit of technology has done more to transform the winter trails of the darkest state in the nation than the tiny, light-emitting diode (LED). LED headlights on fat-tired mountain bikes now […]
Bear-ly seasonable
Skater Peter Snow never saw the bear on his backcountry adventure among the lakes of the Swanson River canoe route in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge over the weekend, but he […]
Iditarod dangers
Back home in Minnesota now with the memory of a near-death experience along the Iditarod Trail unlikely to fade for a long, long time, Scott Hoberg finds himself a man deeply […]
Unbroken trail
Coloradoan fat-tire cyclist Neil Beltchenko and others were out in what used to be the Farewell Burn to the north of Alaska Range on Tuesday being reminded of one thing that […]
