Outdoors

Safari Club International is appealing a decision from a federal judge to uphold hunting and trapping restrictions in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.

With the pandemic still going and the courthouse closed, wedding planning took a different spin.

With indoor rinks closed to public skate, new and experienced skaters alike are turning to natural rinks to get their fix.

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.

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.”

When all that rock fell, it shook the earth equivalent to a magnitude 2.8 or 2.9 earthquake.

Masks are required to be worn at all times except while skiing or snowboarding downhill. Lift lines have been designed to keep everyone six feet apart in all directions.

The revised race route is among a list of changes to the event triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, race officials say.

Managers say they want to keep customers safe and preserve the snow pack until it gets colder and drier on the mountain.

With heavy rain expected on already saturated ground, people living in hillside areas should be especially vigilant.