Iditarod has come and gone. I am exhausted. The entire KNOM staff is exhausted. As dog teams raced their way from Anchorage, through the Alaska Range, up the Yukon River and to the Bering Sea Coast we followed them closely, tracking mushers on GPS, digging through websites for race analysis, listening to Laureli’s interviews with mushers [...]
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Wear Snow Pants: A Cheechako’s Guide to Alaskan Livin’
Cheechako: noun. (From the Chinook jargon) a person newly arrived to the mining districts of Alaska or Northwest Canada; roughly translates to “newcomer” or “tenderfoot”. Despite being a cheechako, I have learned a few things about life in the last frontier these past few months. I would like to share some of these with you. [...]
Late Night Northern Lights
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve thought of the Aurora Borealis as one of the greatest wonders of the natural universe. Seeing the Aurora was one of the things I was most excited to do in Alaska. So last night, when the General Manager and Business Manager’s daughter called me at 10:30 pm and [...]
Solar Storms, Crab Cleaning, and Iditarod
Hi! Bekah here, The past few nights have been predicted to have massive amounts of solar activity, and that means the potential for great Northern Lights is significantly increased! Hopefully a Aurora viewing expedition will be in the works tonight or tomorrow night, and that it will also be successful! I heard that as far [...]
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