And so the season of death begins in Alaska. A 40-year-old skier is dead in an avalanche near the Matanuska Glacier, according to Alaska State Troopers. Five more skiers, among them a […]
Dying season
Trail’s end
A soft-spoken, rail-thin Anchorage musician and author once Alaska famous as one of the hardest of hard men on the Iditarod Trail is dead at the age of 66. Shawn Lyons for […]
The snow trap
A thousand feet above Alaska’s largest city, the winds were Wednesday night building toward hurricane force for the second time in 48 hours. The National Weather Service was forecasting overnight gusts to […]
Deadliest day
Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of the deadliest recreation-related avalanche in Alaska history, and in the days leading up to it the state has suffered the first two avalanche deaths of the 2018-2019 […]
Moto-roulette
Sunny weather brought snowmachine riders out to play in Alaska’s Turnagain Pass over the weekend. Thankfully no one died in the tumble of human-triggered avalanches that followed. The Chugach National Forest […]
Danger times
Just about this time last year, the Kenai Mountains claimed the life of 29-year-old Tyler Kloos in an avalanche, and on Thursday Chugach National Forest Service officials were warning of danger building again […]
Icelandia calls
Just as residents of the land of the midnight sun began gearing up for The Great Alaska Sportsman Show – an annual rite in preparation for the short season of long days […]
Stay home!
Winds that gusted to near 100 mph in the Kenai Mountains south of Anchorage on Thursday had died down by this morning and heavy snows were easing, but the Chugach National Forest […]
Avalanche death
A highly experienced and well-known Anchorage skier has been identified by Alaska State Troopers as the man killed in a pre-Thanksgiving Day avalanche about 60 miles north of the state’s largest city. […]
Dangerous snow
Mother Nature delivered a classic, Bing Crosby-like “White Christmas” to winter sports fans living in Alaska’s urban core, but it came with a decidedly dark underbelly. About a month behind what […]
