On Tuesday afternoon Alaska State Troopers in Fairbanks were notified that there were four woman stranded on an island on the Tanana River. AST reports that “The Alaska Wildlife Troopers and Fairbanks Airport Police and Fire responded to the area.” But, upon their arrival at 2:57 pm, they determined that the conditions were too dangerous […]
Early Monday afternoon at 1:09 pm, a report came in from a Palmer man whose son was trapped on a logjam in the middle of the Tanana River after a kayaking mishap, troopers reported. According to the victim’s father, 69-year-old Erin Brunquist, his son, Christien Brunquist, age 42, was in his kayak when he […]
RIKA’S ROADHOUSE — Sitting in the shade of a poplar, I watch the Tanana River flow by. It’s flat and tan, dimpled by eddies and darted over by swallows that sound like they are chewing rubber bands. I slept last night with my wife, daughter and dog in the upstairs of a handsome, two-story log […]
COS JACKET — On a canoe trip down the lower Tanana River, we’ve scrambled up a sandy bank to explore a place that is less populated now than it was a century ago. No one, in fact, lives at Cos Jacket anymore. There is a cabin-size cache with a tin roof. A few sagging log […]