Leaving Valdez we headed to Central, the home turf of the groom of the wedding we just attended. The small town of Central is, well, basically in central Alaska as a matter of fact. It’s about three hours North of Fairbanks on the Steese Highway (NOT to be confused with the Dalton Highway/Haul Road to [...]
In my quest to find the best local Forest Service Cabins for skiing I checked out the Windy Pass Cabin yesterday. I’d been eyeing this one in particular, since it’s pretty deep in the Gallatin Range and at a pretty good elevation. Most of the other cabins are down in the valley but this one… [...]
So, historically I’ve never been much for volunteer work. This probably stems from when my parents “suggested” I volunteer down at the hospital when I was young, and I did some data entry and cleaned floors and mostly hated it. Doing things you don’t like and don’t care about for no money never made sense. [...]
We spent the night at Glacier Lodge at the top of the pass, surrounded by the beauty of snowy peaks and down-shifting semi-trucks. It was a nice little ex-Best Western with that old-National Park lodge feel run by a bunch of Asians with spotty English. Graham and I struck out for an evening tour up [...]
