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Real Travel Adventures February 2007 Linda Ballou |
Slow Blowing Dream Coming home to Alaska's unrivaled beauty  |
Outside April 2010 Steven Rinella |
Go Big or Go Home Cruise ships and wildlife buses? The tourist staples miss the point of Alaska: It's the last real place to find an epic, crowd-free adventure on American soil.  |
High on Adventure August 2006 Lee Juillerat |
Capitalizing on the outdoors Juneau is more than just a place to pass through while traveling the Inland Passage or making your way to Glacier Bay. It's also a place where residents, and travelers with insight, capitalize on the outdoors.  |
Smithsonian August 2005 Laura Helmuth |
Phenomena and Curiosities: Baked Alaska A unique study documents the disappearance of Alaska's glaciers, blamed on global warming.  |
Adventure October 2006 Andrea Minarcek |
Alaska Road Trip: The Kenai Circuit The road through southeast Alaska leads to groaning glaciers, mugs of microbrew, and the most stunning river trip anywhere.  |
Outside May 2003 Tim Neville |
Latitude Adjustment Ten more ways to frolic in the far north's summer sun  |
Geotimes August 2006 |
Summer Roadtrip: Ferrying Through the Inside Passage In case you think "boat" and "roadtrip" don't mix, you should learn about the Alaska Marine Highway. Glaciers are one of the first things to notice along your trek southward along Alaska's Inside Passage.  |
Real Travel Adventures April 2007 Linda Ballou |
The More it Changes, the More it Stays the Same Alaska is austere, rugged and moody, yet thrilling in its unrelenting beauty. Haines, in the Southeast corner of Alaska, has become a jumping off point for a myriad of outdoor adventures.  |
Adventure August 2005 |
Alaska Fly-In: Kake Sea kayaking Alaska's ultra-remote Inside Passage.  |
Real Travel Adventures September 2007 Marion S. Dreyfus |
Kayaking and Yakking on the Glacial Moraines Kayak on the glacial lakes way up in southeast Alaska without over-turning and drowning in the glacial run-off from Margerie or Pacific glaciers.  |
Outside June 2004 Annette McGivney |
National Park Secret Trips Locals' no-tell favorites, from Acadia to Yellowstone to wildest Alaska--along with a roundup of dream towns nearby, the places to eat, drink, and dance after a day or three in backcountry heaven.  |
High on Adventure February 2001 |
Anchorage Winter Adventures The Iditarod, Flightseeing, Skiing and Dining...  |
Outside October 2002 Ian Frazier |
Terminal Ice Hot enough for you? Go to the bottom of the planet -- or the top -- and you can't miss the warning signs of a warm apocalypse. And at the heart of the mystery, like broken shards of a colder climate, float the icebergs, ghost-white messengers trying to tell us something we can't fathom.  |
AskMen.com Nick Clarke |
Top 10: Train Trips Yes, train journeys are making an unexpected comeback -- thanks in large part to delayed planes, seasickness and dodgy road trips.  |
Scientific American September 2008 Krista West |
Researchers hone seismic skills to peer inside glaciers Seismic data enable scientists to peer inside melting glaciers before they calve  |
Geotimes July 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Highway to Portage Despite the disappearing glaciers and quicksand-like mud, a trip down Alaska's Seward Highway is refreshing; you can still visit pristine landscapes and potentially dangerous natural phenomena without being fenced out.  |
Popular Mechanics March 15, 2010 Trevor Williams |
Iceberg Forensics: Predicting the Planet's Future With Antarctic Ice Something new is happening with the ice streams and glaciers. They are getting thinner, and they are getting thinner because they are speeding up.  |
AskMen.com January 6, 2004 Harry Marks |
Alaskan Adventure With an abundance of natural attractions and adventurous activities, Alaska deserves any traveler's attention. Already a popular cruise destination, America's Last Frontier has established several excellent sights on terra firma that draw in 1.1 million visitors per year.  |
Real Travel Adventures September 2005 Hendson Quan |
Bears At Your Feet Recommendations for accommodations and activities in Wrangell, Alaska.  |
Outside December 2007 Jim Rendon |
The New Impact Zone Veteran Hawaiian surfers test the waves in Alaska's Copper River.  |
Smithsonian October 2006 Anne Bolen |
Life in the Field - Frozen in Time Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest have recorded hundreds of years of climate history, helping researchers plot how quickly the planet is warming.  |
Geotimes October 2004 Jay Chapman |
Melting Glaciers Promote Earthquakes In southern Alaska, melting glaciers heat up the possibility of earthquakes.  |
Geotimes December 2004 Sara Pratt |
Antarctic Ice Connections The West Antarctic ice sheet contains 3.2 million cubic kilometers of ice. Were it to collapse due to global warming, it would raise global sea level by 5 meters, catastrophically inundating low-lying areas.  |
Adventure May 2004 James Vlahos |
The Glacial Gallery Montana's Glacier National Park is one of the world's premier showcases of glaciation, a land of deep valleys separated by spiny aretes, cirques that shelter turquoise tarns, and summits in every conceivable shape, from layer cake to Egyptian pyramid.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Erico Guizzo |
Into Deep Ice What does the future hold for Earth's ice? A group of British researchers seeks answers in the bowels of a glacier.  |
Linux Journal February 1, 2003 Doc Searls |
Cruising the Carribean If you weren't on the boat, here's what happened on Linux Lunacy II.  |
Adventure August 2004 Lolly Merrell |
The Vanishing World of Lonnie Thompson A secret history of the world's climate, including global warming, is buried deep inside glaciers atop the world's tallest peaks. But as temperatures rise, those records are melting. One paleontologist/climatologist is racing to preserve a crucial piece of our past- in his freezer.  |
Geotimes December 2003 Naomi Lubick |
Glacial earthquakes Seismologists have fingered glaciers as one source of newly discovered "slow" earthquakes.  |
Geotimes October 2003 Sara Pratt |
New model for glacial erosion Understanding what controls glacial erosion may have important implications for understanding glaciated mountain belts and modeling both ancient and current ice sheets.  |
Geotimes February 2005 Megan Sever |
Glacier: Crown of the Continent Established as a national park in 1910, Glacier National Park's geologic and ecologic significance is internationally recognized.  |
Real Travel Adventures February 2006 Janice Lovelace |
Eagles Soar A great place to find Bald Eagles in the winter is to head to northern Washington state, to the Nooksack River valley and the Skagit River valley.  |
Real Travel Adventures April 2007 Bonnie & Bill Neely |
Alberta's Wonder Landscape Enjoy the multiple beautiful landscapes, people, mountains, rivers, National and Provencial Parks in Canada.  |
Adventure May 2004 Carey Ostergard |
Alaska's Virgin Islands Photographer Rich Reid and Contributing Editor Robert Earle Howells pitched a twist on the classic Alaska-unbound experience -- using the ferries of the Alaska Marine Highway to island-hop the Inside Passage. Here's a photo gallery of that adventure.  |