Like many of life’s most interesting endeavors, the Mount Marathon Race in Seward Alaska began with a bar bet. Basically, a couple of guys with too much time on their hands and too much alcohol in their systems looked out…
Two Reasons to Get Off the Boat at Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park
John Muir, the father of the National Park Service, first canoed into what is now Glacier Bay National Park in 1879. His writing describes the same overpowering beauty that draws nearly a half million people to this Alaskan national park…
Cruising Alaska on a Small Ship with a Marine Biologist
Alaska is a big place and we often use big words to try to describe it. But Alaska is more than Denali and grizzly bears, more than calving glaciers, more than big moose and breaching whales. “Like so many other…