
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 […]
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 […]
Once again Alaskans dominated the biggest, annual sporting competition conducted on the historic Iditarod Trail despite being outnumbered about two to one by those coming from around the world to test themselves […]
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 […]
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 […]
After the attack finally ended, after Iditarod Trail Invitational skier Greg Mills finally managed to retrieve enough warm clothes to stop his teeth from chattering and make his way down the trail […]
The man seemingly unable to resist the call of that great “White Silence” of which the author Jack London long ago wrote was alone on the trail into the tiny community of […]
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 […]
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 […]
As is usually the case, the remote Yentna Station Roadhouse just off the Alaska road system was warm and inviting on Sunday night. Out on the frozen river, however, the temperature was dropping past […]
Out in the dark and minus-5 degree cold settling onto Alaska’s deserted Yentna River on Sunday night, adventure cyclist Jay Petervary was for a change free. Free from the internet. […]