ALASKA SNOW

Historic painting of ship gets new life
NavyTimes.com
An Indian canoe with two people paddling, and a steam powered launch, can be seen in the foreground, and snow-capped mountains are in back. ...

Malaysia Star
Discover the natural wonders of Kamchatka
Malaysia Star
Snow-streaked peaks span the horizon through your aircraft window. On the ground, the twin “home volcanoes”, Avachinsky and Koryaksky, loom up behind the ...

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Irish Times
First Irishman to scale K2 gets posthumous honour
Irish Times
A second snow and ice fall claimed the lives of the other climbers. John Dowd, a member of Kerry Mountain Rescue who climbed with McDonnell in Alaska and ...

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Warmer Great Lakes: Nice for a dip, but worrisome
Chicago Tribune
Open water absorbs sunlight more effectively than reflective ice and snow. A buoy in western Lake Superior this week recorded 71 degrees -- 1 degree off the ...

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Quality bonuses boost Bay prices to highest level since '88
Alaskajournal.com
Bristol Bay fishermen also got a boost from three more competitors that specialize in fresh salmon markets: Leader Creek, Snow Pac and Copper River Seafoods ...

Thoughts on the coming winter
WOOD-TV (blog)
When you look at years with this pattern, there is a pretty significant “early” snow (lake-effect), sometime from mid-November to early December, ...

ARTINFO
Matias Duville: Snow-blind
ARTINFO
In early 2008 the artist Matías Duville had a dream about Alaska — a place he'd never been and one that could hardly be further from his ...

Youth ball: Anchorage softball team returns
The Columbian
By The Columbian Nunaka Valley Little League from Anchorage, Alaska, is back in Vancouver, aiming to repeat as Little League Softball Western Region ...

Seattle's Frye Art Museum pays tribute to its former director Ida Kay Greathouse.
Seattle Times
It rises in dim layers, from the snow-gleam of a meadow at nightfall, to the dark band of woods at its edge, to a bank of shadowy mist above, and then, ...

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Travel tips for a jaunt in the Yukon
News-Leader.com
Alaska's nice, but why not get out your passport and head to Yukon, a Canadian territory that borders Alaska, to spice up a summer vacation? ...

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MILITARY: Serving the flag, July 30
North County Times
She is the daughter of Escondido resident Julie Snow. Air Force Airman Joseph A. Garcia has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force ...

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Wasilla couple face federal charges
Anchorage Daily News
Trace Rae Thoms, 46, and his wife, Jennifer Anne Thoms, 36, of 7974 Scarlet Circle in Wasilla, had allegedly used a painting business and a snow plowing ...
Wasilla couple facing federal drug chargesMat-Su Valley Frontiersman

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Chelan's Lakeshore Trail offers scenery, sun
Seattle Times
The sun's disappeared behind the darkening spires across the lake to the west, leaving only an electric-blue evening sky and one solitary, snow-patched ...

Friday Flyer
Notes From a Road Once Taken: Meeting a man who knew how to travel light
Friday Flyer
By the time he got to Alaska, it was summer. Sometime in July he started south, ahead of the snow, ice and blizzards. He said it like it was nothing unusual ...

The Greathouse touch: Several exhibits at the Frye reveal the canny curatorial ...
Seattle Times
It rises in dim layers, from the snow-gleam of a meadow at nightfall, to the dark band of woods at its edge, to a bank of shadowy mist above, and then, ...

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Value Tours ski and snow Northern Hemisphere: New brochure, fresh deals, hot ...
e-Travel Blackboard (press release)
... officially launched its brand new 2010/11 Northern Hemisphere ski and snow brochure, featuring the unique new snow destination Alyeska Resort, Alaska. ...

Road trip across 135-mile Denali Highway doesn't disappoint
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
The route snakes through bright green foothills streaked in fireweed and backdropped by Alaska Range peaks capped in fresh snow. ...

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Historic Sitka painting of ship gets new life
Victoria Advocate
SITKA, Alaska (AP) - A painting from the early days of Sitka under the US flag has been restored to its former glory after years in a back room of the Sitka ...

Shelby pastor is Alaska-bound
Shelby Star
He said, 'Mom, did you know they have no snow days?'” One thing the family will miss is the people. “That is by far the hardest thing to do, leave people ...

Ski Channel
The US Cross Country Ski Team goes the distance
Ski Channel
"The reason we keep going back is it's just really good mid-winter type snow conditions that you can't find on a glacier in Alaska or Europe," said Head ...

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