Capturing the spirit in the sky A SHIMMER OF LIGHT FLICKERS OVER THE KOBUK RIVER AND THE CURVE OF THE BORNITE HILLS. Then another. As I gaze eastward,…
Intentional community eats with purpose [by Amy Newman] LIVING OFF THE LAND IS THE ALASKAN WAY: Alaska’s Native people have led a subsistence lifestyle for generations; sportsmen stock…
A brief tale of squandered opportunity and a chance for redemption WE HEARD HIM FIRST, the rythmic unkh, unkh, drifting eerily through the morning fog. Closer he came…
A Kenai River king salmon tale [by Kurt Jacobson] WHEN I MOVED TO THE KENAI PENINSULA IN 1984, I heard it took an average of 40 hours to…
Sled dog care and mushing program leads children into the future [by Jayme Dittmar] People and dogs have coexisted and worked in unison for thousands of years across…
Actor Henry Winkler talks fly fishing [by Jim Dobson] AN ACCOMPLISHED SPORTSMAN WHO METICULOUSLY RECORDS THE MEASUREMENTS OF EVERY FISH HE HOOKS, actor Henry Winkler has learned that…
Follow Alaska’s fall colors south to Lost Lake [by Mollie Foster] As spectacular as they are, it’s surprisingly easy to miss fall colors in Alaska. Once the leaves…
The hunt for the perfect photo. IT’S 1981, a mid-August evening on the spine of the Kobuk-Noatak divide, 70 miles above the Arctic Circle. It’s hard, wind-scraped country:…
Wolves of the Alexander Archipelago CRUNCH, CRUNCH, SPLASH, CRUNCH!” I hear them before I see them as I paddle my kayak around a rocky point in Glacier Bay…