PUNTILLA LAKE — On a spectacular night with the stars shining bright overhead and a waning gibbous moon ducking in and out of a band of clouds along the southern horizon, the […]
Snow slows Iditarod cyclists
Mushy Iditarod Trail Beckons
KNIK — Alaska is rich in stories of adventurers frostbitten and frozen along the fabled Iditarod Trail from Seward to Nome, but of late there seems often a strange, new weather concern: […]
Made in Alaska Fad
Many of the gang of trailblazers who conspired to make fat bikes the fad they are today gather Saturday in Anchorage to discuss how an old idea — a bike with balloon […]
A beautifully brutal race
FAIRBANKS — Is it possible a truly nice guy can win the human-powered Iditarod Trail Invitational — the hardest and one of the most potentially dangerous races in the triumvirate of beautifully […]
The new and truly “Iceland”
Raindrops were sprinkling Alaska’s largest city again Thursday, and suddenly the year-old climate-change speculation about Anchorage transforming into “a less sunny version of Seattle” wasn’t so funny.
The tough guy
After the beat down the frozen Iditarod Trail put on Pennsylvanian Tim Hewitt last year, a lesser man would have taken his swollen, frostbit fingers and his red, puffed-up-like-potato feet home, plopped […]
