The race will use abandoned mining towns and other unpopulated areas as checkpoints this year.
Outdoors
Yukon birders excited about rare ‘lifer’ species that made its way from Japan this winter
Hawfinch sightings in Haines Junction are a first for the Yukon Territory and a first for Canada.
Democrats renew push to restore Roadless Rule in Tongass National Forest
Democratic lawmakers in Congress have filed a bill that would reverse the Trump administration’s decision to exempt the nation’s largest national forest from the 2001 rule that restricts road-building and other development.
New avalanche center compiles observations from Juneau backcountry
Research shows that it wasn’t mainly beginning or intermediate backcountry users who triggered avalanches during the pandemic.
Safari Club International appeals ruling on Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
Safari Club International is appealing a decision from a federal judge to uphold hunting and trapping restrictions in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.
Bethel couple’s pandemic dog sled wedding comes 12 years after meeting in Ohio Waffle House
With the pandemic still going and the courthouse closed, wedding planning took a different spin.
Skating the winter blues away
With indoor rinks closed to public skate, new and experienced skaters alike are turning to natural rinks to get their fix.
Yakutat To Unimak: Minnesota hiker recounts 2,500-mile Alaska traverse
From mid-June to mid-October, Dan Binde of Minnesota hiked from Yakutat, in the northern reaches of Alaska’s Inside Passage, across the Alaska Peninsula, to Unimak, the largest and easternmost of the Aleutian Islands.
‘Lots to consider in the mountains’: Monday’s harmless avalanche on Mt. Juneau could be a sign of more to come
In the urban avalanche advisory for Tuesday, Juneau emergency programs manager Tom Mattice wrote that recent storms have brought cycles of snow, rain and freezing mist, leading to a snowpack that was “definitely developing more questionable weak layers.”
Massive mountain rockslide near Juneau shakes the earth on Christmas Eve
When all that rock fell, it shook the earth equivalent to a magnitude 2.8 or 2.9 earthquake.