Category: Alaska

Locked between mountains and the Gastineau Channel, Juneau is a great portal for visitors to be introduced to the rugged and beautiful “last frontier” state of Alaska. With a population of 31,000, Juneau is a cross between a city, a …

The cry goes out — orcas on right, 9 o’clock — and I tried desperately to spot a spout or tail or fin a mile and a half out. Still, it was the closest I’d ever come to a whale …

Forty pairs of eyes scan the countryside looking for movement, any movement. With binoculars and cameras at the ready, we hoped for a bear or a moose but were willing to settle for some Dall sheep high up the mountain. …

Our one-woman tour company, Corky Champagne, had been carting us around south central Alaska in a mini van. We left Anchorage headed to the well-known and popular Denali National Park & Preserve, a 6 million-acre protected plot of remote Alaskan …

I am back from my adventure where I learned to kayak on the glacial lakes way up in southeast Alaska, without personal horrors of over-turning and drowning in the glacial run-off from Margerie or Pacific glaciers! The state is three …

I have been migrating from Los Angeles to Haines, the prettiest little town in Southeast Alaska, for the last 40 years. Like the arctic tern in its epic 25,000- mile round trip journey and the salmon’s primordial yearning to return …

The Tatshenshini River is a powerful torrent that flows from its headwaters in Canada’s Yukon Territory for 120 unchecked miles to the Gulf of Alaska. It is the main artery through the pulsing heart of one of the world’s largest …

When New Zealander Michael Slade decided that it was time to take a break from city life, the Global Volunteer Network’s Alaska program seemed like the perfect opportunity. The Alaskan culture and wilderness fulfilled his expectations and more, despite any …