Coast Guard Air Station-Kodiak launched an HC-130 Hercules and a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter to Wales on Sunday in response to two boaters in distress and missing near the community. Coast Guard District 17 Watchstanders received information that at 2:30 am on Sunday, two boaters, 21-year-old Timothy Miligrock and 14-year-old Damian Soolook, were in distress and […]
On a recent ski trip across the Seward Peninsula, I followed a trail along the Pilgrim River broken by five friends. Their path led to a subarctic oasis. Beyond the blank white of frozen river was a small settlement nestled in balsam poplar trees 60 feet high. The cleared fields, old farm equipment, scattered pine […]
Skiing across the raw, open landscape of the Seward Peninsula a few weeks ago, my friends and I dreamed of getting out of a big wind and into the tub at Serpentine Hot Springs. Though none of us had been there, we all recognized the Serpentine valley by black tors guarding the surrounding hillsides. With […]