Aliy Zirkle has finished either the Iditarod or Yukon Quest every year since 1998. She won the Yukon Quest in 2000. At the Iditarod, she finished second three times in a row.
Outdoors
Haines man mauled by bear while backcountry snowboarding
A Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Sitka responded to transport the man to a hospital.
Three killed in avalanche near Bear Mountain in Chugiak
Troopers are asking hikers to avoid the area until avalanche conditions improve.
No injuries and no damage reported after avalanche on Mt. Juneau
Wednesday’s avalanche forecast says winds are expected to gradually push snow off of high points and slowly reduce the risk of natural avalanches.
Former Kotzebue mayor to lead National Park Service’s Native relations program for Alaska
Maija Katak Lukin is Inupiaq and grew up in Kotzebue and the Sisualik fish camp, where she’s spent her life subsistence hunting, fishing and gathering. She says her work balances the land stewardship of her ancestors with more modern federal protections.
Prince of Wales trappers report 68 wolves taken in 2020
Conservationists had sued unsuccessfully to block the 21-day trapping season.
Iditarod mushers train for a radically different route
The race will use abandoned mining towns and other unpopulated areas as checkpoints this year.
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.