The Kenai store is one of the local vendors for ice classic tickets. Each ticket is one guess for when the ice on the Tanana River in Interior Alaska will break, moving the tripod that’s planted ...

There is a palpable fear within Alaska's drinking population that the classic Alaska bar is dying out. Anchorage's The Monkey Wharf, with live monkeys behind glass taunting patrons, is long gone.

DOING THERE The Coastal Classic Train runs daily between mid-May and mid-September. From US$95 ($132.5). See alaskatrain.com. Brian Johnston was a guest of Ponant, Visit Anchorage and Alaska Train.

Former Ice Classic director Cherrie Forness, left, and her sister Kay supervise the limbo contest during the 2019 "Tripod Days" celebration in Nenana, Alaska. The limbo stick is supported by ...

On Saturday, during the 2014 Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic, Kehrer died while trying to packraft across the Tana River in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. He is the challenge ...