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We hear from three mountaineers with different experience and outlook: speed-setting Seattle alpinist Colin Haley, Peruvian born and newly successful Seven Summit climber Sylvia Vasquez-Lavado, and veteran international climber and
By Erin McKinstry, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage Spruce beetles may be native to Alaska, but they can still devastate a spruce forest. Over the last two years, an outbreak concentrated
This is the Denali Report for Friday, July 6th, 2018. Currently, there are 1,115 climbers registered to attempt Denali this year, and just fewer than 150 attempts are underway. Almost
The family submitted this obituary: John A. “Trapper John” Baker, 85, a longtime resident of Talkeetna, Alaska, died peacefully on June 21, 2018, at his farm in Talkeetna, due to
The Alaska Division of Forestry has suspended all burn permits in the Mat-Su Borough. The suspension, which was issued on Tuesday, applies to open burning and burn barrels. Small campfires
Two violations of the Talkeetna sewer lagoon’s permit so far this year are prompting the Mat-Su Borough to perform a capital upgrade of the system. According to an email from
A single vehicle crash in Talkeetna left two people injured over the weekend. According to the Alaska State Troopers, 23-year-old Logan Nichols was driving near Mile 11 of the Talkeetna
Recently I experienced the realization of a long-held dream, and looking back over the circumstances that led up to it, on one hand it seemed almost impossibly complicated, and on
Butchy Fuego aired this conversation with Lisa Roderick, recorded at Denali’s Base Camp in early summer of 2018, on his program Hats, Friday June 29th.
