Over the past several years, I’ve found that one surefire way to impress people here on the East Coast is to mention that I once lived in Alaska. I become something of a novelty, as curious New Yorkers inquire about my year in Fairbanks. Read the rest of this entry »
“Molodei!†(good) “Molodei!†shouts Dima, followed by “Horosho! (good) Horosho!â€. Twenty-year old Dima Kovalev of Lisvyanka, Russia, was zipping us over the snow tracks through the woods behind a half dozen jazzed and excited sled dogs. Read the rest of this entry »
John Pannell, 47, from Mutchetts Close in Garston has just returned from a 12-day winter trip on the Trans-Siberian railway. Read the rest of this entry »
Around this time of year, most of us get a little restless, longing for warmer temperatures and a chance to enjoy the outdoors again. Read the rest of this entry »
Sunbeams shot through the lodgepole pine forest, striping the snow-blanketed mountain trail with shadows. On this crisp, clear winter morning, I could have skied. But instead, I traded my skis for a team of eight huskies yoked to a sled at Good Times Adventures, in Breckenridge. Read the rest of this entry »
Art Falk was able to cross dog sledding off his “Bucket List” on Saturday. Read the rest of this entry »
Alaska in the summertime is full of fun and, most particularly, sun. Read the rest of this entry »
My afternoon as an Iditarod trainer. Read the rest of this entry »
The dogs want to run. Read the rest of this entry »
Quebec City is turning 400, and everyone is invited to what promises to be a major 10-month celebration. The city on the St. Lawrence has been sprucing itself up for the 400th celebration, even adding attractions including a new 1.5-mile riverside park, Promenade Samuel de Champlain, named for Quebec’s founder. Expect the whole city to be bigger, better, flashier and brighter. Read the rest of this entry »
At the Boyne Highlands resort near here, for instance, you can go dog sledding with an experienced musher who has raced three times in the famed Iditarod dogsled race in Alaska. Read the rest of this entry »
Alaska’s glaciers and dogsleds are wonderful, but it’s the people you remember Read the rest of this entry »
It may look like just a large block of ice to most people, but for ice sculptor Armand Ramirez, the 300-pound rectangle of frozen water that sat on a stage Sunday afternoon in Frankfort was already a completed work - it just needed a few pieces shaved off. Read the rest of this entry »
Sixty Alaskan Huskies yipped and yelped and howled on a frozen river 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle, itching to run. Read the rest of this entry »
Everyone knows the old saw, “if life gives you lemons, make lemonade,” but we Midwesterners know that saying to be more like, “if you can’t melt it, belt it with a winter festival.” Read the rest of this entry »
From its purchase from Imperial Russia in 1867 to the gold rushes of the early 20th century, from its road to statehood after World War II, to the oil boom of the 1970s, Alaska reflects a progressive and hearty spirit, with rich multiple cultures that are the foundations of the state’s present-day prosperity and allure. Read the rest of this entry »
The howling begins the moment the Alaskan huskies are lifted from the truck. The dogs know they are going for a run and tend to get a little excited. Each pooch reacts differently to the humans they will be carrying — the outgoing ones are liable to slather you with kisses, while the self-conscious ones cower in the shadows. Read the rest of this entry »
A team of dogs, harnessed two-by-two to a gangline, pull a sled to the starting line of the first ever Flathead Read the rest of this entry »
We caught a comparatively mild, calm Saturday. The temperature might have reached as high as the teens during early afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »
ADAM Munthe of Hellens manor house, Much Marcle, is planning to lead a second scientific expedition to the Arctic, to study climate change and its effects on nomadic peoples who live there. Read the rest of this entry »
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