There’s perhaps no better way to spend fall in Alaska than by exploring the state’s national parks-especially if they include a fantastic kaleidoscope of autumn colors. But as the seasons change, ...

When golden eagles migrate to and from Alaska each year, they have to fly around a huge obstacle: the 16,000-foot peaks of the Wrangell Mountains. Some of the eagles choose a route that skirts the ...

Kevin White has placed his hands on the long, white fur of more than 400 Alaska mountain goats during the past 20 years. His diligence in studying this Ice Age wanderer of high, steep country has led ...

Mount Churchill stands in a white corner of the Alaska map, deceptive in its cold, windblown silence. At least twice in the last few thousand years, the peak’s ice-covered caldera has spewed ash that ...

Photos and words from an “intense” trip to an Alaskan gem. Out of our group of five skiers, Dave and I were the ones on the first flight in Drake’s small, modified Cessna. That meant we had the ...

Alaska looms large in skiing’s collective imagination. From Sammy Carlson’s seasonal excursions to Teton Gravity Research’s slate of films, flick after flick has featured the towering peaks of the ...

The largest inland earthquake to strike North America in more than a century shook south central Alaska on Nov. 3, 2002 (SN: 11/16/02, p. 307: Available to subscribers at Shaked Alaska: A sleepy fault ...

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