ANCHORAGE, Alaska — As a kid growing up in Fairbanks, Alaska, Issa Otten learned early how to live with extreme cold: Dress warmly and don't stay outside long. Now, though, as the 42-year-old Anchorage woman prepares to undertake the 1,000-mile Tesoro ...
Not often does a man open the back door of his home, poke out the barrel of his rifle and shoot a monster-size grizzly in Alaska. Maybe the door of a cabin along some remote bay on Kodiak Island, where 1,000-pound bears are expected to roam, but ...
Sometimes fate does this to a man: You spend a couple weeks trooping to the Kenai Peninsula to try to fill the moose-hunting tag of a lifetime. The weather pounds you. Your moose calling brings in more bears, including some frighteningly big grizzlies, ...
Win the brutal 1,000-mile Yukon Quest Sled Dog Race and the punishing 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race both in one year, both in fact in the space of little more than a month? Indeed, Mackey's team looked ready to go run and win another race, ...
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