Imagine you're sitting in a log cabin in the middle of Alaska. It's the middle of January, when temperatures routinely dip to 40 degrees below zero. It's 5 p.m. and pitch black outside. You're waiting ...

When hiking alone in Alaska, I’d been told, make noise. The last thing you want to do is to surprise a bear. And so I was doing my best to fill the woods with song, belting out Broadway tunes as I ...

Summer is barreling toward Alaska, and so is the enticing promise of weekends spent enjoying the state’s plentiful wilderness. But perhaps the realization of summer’s approach brings forth an ...

When hiking alone in Alaska, I’d been told, make noise. The last thing you want is to surprise a bear. And so I was doing my best to fill the woods with song, belting out Broadway tunes as I trekked ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The late naturalist’s remote lifestyle has captivated Americans—myself included—for decades. Would a visit to his off-grid ...

For seven days and nights, home was a 12-by-14-foot cabin on Uganik Lake in the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge. A squat brown structure set amid alders and tall grass, it is the picture of rustic ...

FAIRBANKS - The late 1940s through the 1950s were a tumultuous period for Fairbanks. Military personnel and civilians poured into the area at an alarming pace as the Cold War with the Soviet Union ...

The late naturalist’s remote lifestyle has captivated Americans—myself included—for decades. Would a visit to his off-grid wilderness shack live up to its beloved image? It’s late June, and after ...