Month: October 2011
Chugach State Park – The Outdoor Women
Friday afternoon, late April. End of a busy workweek — so busy that I’ve kept myself sequestered indoors, despite six straight days of glorious...
Denali’s Trailless Wilderness – The Outdoor Women
Hiking the Backcountry Less than a half-mile from the Denali park road and only ten minutes into our three-night backpacking trip, Dan Hall and...
Hiking along the Aichilik River – The Outdoor Women
Drifting off to sleep my first night in the Aichilik River Valley I hear, or perhaps imagine, the distant howling of Canis lupus. Wolves...
Hiking the Resurrection Pass Trail – The Outdoor Women
Alaska Weekend Getaway For a state that’s more than twice the size of Texas and known the world over for its wilderness, Alaska has...
Wrangell – St. Elias National Park Hiking – The Outdoor Women
A pack trip in Wrangell-St.Elias National Park and Preserve can be an exciting and rewarding wilderness experience if the hiker is prepared for the...
Alaska Regional Roundup – The Outdoor Women
365 Million Acres of Adventure I’m a born-and-bred Alaskan with eighteen-plus years to my credit — and yet I’ve spent most of that time...
McNeil River Sanctuary – The Outdoor Women
A Gathering of Bears We have barely finished storing away food and setting up tents among tall meadow plants when a family of brown...
The Denali Highway – History and Prehistory – The Outdoor Women
The Tangle Lakes area contains some of the earliest and most continuous evidence of human occupation in North America, extending back more than 10,000...
The Denali Highway – The Outdoor Women
Hike, Bike, Paddle and Explore along the Original Gateway to Denali National Park Ten thousand years ago, hunters waited for the caribou around the...