Mother Nature pummels Iditarod Invitational With an Irish hiker noted for his physical toughness and psychological fortitude in retreat after challenging what might be the toughest trail left in North America and […]
The vast alone
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 […]
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 […]
Who to believe?
Alaska winter 2020 is either icier than in a long time, or so short on ice the census takers can’t drive the ice roads. Public radio will tell you both. The latest […]
Yukon ordeal
No one in America today knows better than Tim Hewitt the meaning of the legendary Archdeacon Hudson Stuck’s more than 100-year-old observation that “the greatest gift” one man can bestow on another […]
When owls attack
As if bad trail and temporarily getting lost weren’t enough to mark the start of Tim Hewitt’s latest Alaska adventure, now comes word of a wild-animal attack – an owl to be […]
Alone in the wild
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 […]
Damn polar vortex
Coming off the warmest year in Alaska history, it’s been a rough month in the outpost community of McGrath on the north side of the Alaska Range. The temperature there Thursday night […]
Idit-a-grunt
On a comfortably warm Saturday in the urban comfort of Alaska’s largest city, the stars of the legendary Iditarod Trail staged their annual sled dog show for the cameras, the commentators, the […]
Common denominator
The north’s fastest Iditarod Trail race – the 2000-mile Iron Dog – was parked in the remote city of Nome on Wednesday celebrating its arrival at the outpost on the […]
