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The Admirable Alaska Animal Sanctuary Providing Safe Haven For Bears

The Admirable Alaska Animal Sanctuary Providing Safe Haven For Bears

Fortress of the Bear - An Alaska Animal Sanctuary in Sitka, Alaska By: Courtney Dowd-Stanley Located on Baranof Island in Southeast Alaska, Fort...

13 Quirky Alaska Roadside Attractions That’ll Make You Do A Double Take

Alaska Roadside Attractions - Delightfully Bizarre By: Courtney Dowd-Stanley When you hear the saying “the goods are odd, but the odds are good”...

15 Reasons Anyone Who Visits Alaska This Summer Won't Want To Leave

Alaska Summer - A Dream Vacation By: Courtney Dowd-Stanley Visiting Alaska during the prime summer months is an experience unlike anything else ...

An Average Alaskan Boy - Remembering The Fallen

An Average Alaskan Boy By Heinie Snider | from his book, "So Was Alaska" originally published in 1961 This story is about one such boy, jus...

Delicious Smoked Salmon Stuffed Poblano Peppers Recipe

Smoked Salmon Stuffed Poblano Peppers by Cecil Sanders I've found many tasty uses for the delicious Copper River Sockeye Salmon our family dip nets...

An Amazing Day Fishing The Swan Lake Canoe Trail

Swan Lake Canoe Trail by Kalb Stevenson “Wanna get away?” That used to be the national ad slogan for a popular Lower 48 airline, but it also charac...

Explore Alaska’s Mendenhall Ice Caves For A Surreal Glacier Experience

Mendenhall Ice Caves - Juneau, Alaska By: Courtney Dowd-Stanley Kick off your journey to the Mendenhall Ice Caves by heading to Juneau, Alaska’s...

The World’s Largest ZipRider That’s Located Right Here In Alaska

World's Largest ZipRider - Hoonah, Alaska By: Courtney Dowd-Stanley Head to the community of Hoonah, located in Southeast Alaska on Chichagof Is...

Captain Payne - The Greatest Shipmaster of the Alaska Marine Highway

Captain Payne - "What a ride! What a captain!" by Captain Bill Hopkins AMHS (retired) Captain Harold Payne (1921 – 2002) was, in my opinion, the gr...

Shemya Island - Exploring In Remote Alaska

An Unlikely Thing - Exploring Shemya Island By: Michael Rogers | Photos by: Jeff Brummett My work in Alaska has never been what my friends in the L...

Captain Hofstad - A Mentor Who Taught How to Navigate Alaska's Waters

"Captain Hofstad" Captain Hofstad - A Veteran of the Alaska Marine Highway and Mentor Who Taught How to Navigate Alaska's Waters by Captain Bill Ho...

A Grueling Day of Family Fun in the Fireweed 200

A Long Ride to Valdez Racing in the Fireweed Bicycle Race by Anne Sanders Each July, for the last thirteen years, bikers from across the world ha...

King Salmon Fishing on the Deshka River

Catching Kings Traveling up the Deshka River by Cecil Sanders Deshka River - I don’t believe in luck. I don’t believe in karma. I believe that the ...