UPDATED 12/27/2019:The National Weather Service is now reporting a minus-65 temperature reported this morning from near the Tanana River in the center of the state “is the coldest official temperature in Alaska […]
Winter bites back
Long gone
Stumbling around in the brush of wild Alaska in the bad light of an early November afternoon about to succumb to the blackness of the onrushing night, thoughts of 32-year-old German Thomas […]
Subtle dangers
CHITINA – Along the banks of the Copper River on Tuesday, many of those dipnetting salmon from the muddy waters raging south toward the Gulf of Alaska seemed well aware of the […]
Helmets really?
Where and when the idea that safety gear in and of itself makes people safe entered the American mainstream is unclear, but it has now reached the point of a dangerous absurdity. […]
Alaska difference
An iced over Scott Hoberg after winning the Tuscobia Winter Ultra in Wisconsin in 2017 Interior Alaska-normal settled on an endurance race in northern Minnesota last week and almost overnight “Bold North,” […]
Deadly cold
The brutally cold temperatures that have long defined Alaska were easing across a vast stretch of the Interior on Monday even as the National Weather Service cautioned of the dangers of frostbite […]
Techno-cold risks
Two feet and a hand gone to frostbite, 61-year-old Italian Roberto Zanda can only wish he had been endurance racing in the safety of Alaska’s Iditarod warmth this year instead of […]
To build a fire
About a week before Christmas, 26-year-old Mike Watkins took off on a snowmachine adventure in the foothills of the Alaska Range mountains about 100 miles north of the state’s largest city. He […]
Killer roads
A 22-year-old University of Alaska Fairbanks student who stopped his car along the George Parks Highway to help a snowmobiler with problems is dead as a result of one of the 49th […]
Liar, liar
The sun was bright in Anchorage on Friday. The bitter north wind had finally stopped blowing. And the temperature had climbed to 20 degrees. The day felt positively balmy. But it […]
