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A synoptic biographic sketch of the avalanche expert, Jill Fredston, is presented. Her works are also discussed.

Details on the personality of Buckwheat Donahue are presented.

Sherry Simpson describes his experiences regarding winter campaigning and spending a night in the Aurora Ice Hotel at Chena Hot Springs Resort. The experience became a less edgy with the fire marshal's edict that every bedroom in the hotel include an extinguisher and smoke alarm to protect the guests from setting themselves on fire while surrounded by tons of frozen water.

A group of students describes their experience when they went to rural Alaska and revealed about the life of people in rural areas. They participated in the Rose Urban Rural Exchange, an innovative Alaska Humanities Foundation program that strives to build relationships among Alaska's city and Bush residents.

A profile of Otto Geist who, over the course of his career, provided the University of Alaska Museum with a good proportion of its collection. While some claim that Geist was merely a passionate collector, others argue that he was a plunderer who exploited Alaska's Native population for his own ends.

R. Dale Guthrie is a paleontologist who has uncovered many fossils in Alaska. Guthrie maintains that the Alaskan landscape represents a world long gone and studying it provides insights on the forces that rendered these ancient animals extinct.

Gwich'in Athabascan writer Velma Wallis won the 1993 Western States Book Award for her 'Two Old Women.' The story of abandonment, survival and resilience has been translated into 15 languages and sold a quarter-million copies.

Land managers in Alaska do not follow the forest fire philosophy of the US. Instead of extinguishing wildfires at once, fire fighters allow the fire to spread reasonably. Land managers explain that fire also helps the ecology by making forests more fertile.

Alaska's dogsled-driven mail carriers endured all kinds of hardships as they delivered mail to the state's remote towns. The mail carriers often worked in freezing temperatures at great risk to themselves and their dog teams. The death of Charlie Biederman in 1995 ended the era of the mail carrier.

Barrow, AK, is rich in archaeological finds. Some of these important artifacts include a centuries-old 'mukluk' or skin boot and a drilled polar bear tooth, which reveal Alaska's history.

Description of a visit to Kennicott Glacier in Alaska is presented.

The experiences of a writer in Denali National Park in Alaska in finding wolves are discussed.

The author describes Finny Wood and Celia Hunter's lives and their efforts in the conservation movement in Alaska including starting the Alaskan Conservation Society.

At north Bridget Cove, a bluff of slate and greenstone wedges itself into the beach, the plateau crowned by rainforest. It wasn't easy, clambering 40 feet up this stony prow [...]

In the northlands, you will succumb to winter, but not before tasting the richness of the autumnal land and sky. THE SEASON OF SURRENDER In the boreal forests, the birch [...]

The article discusses the experiences of gambling at casinos in Las Vegas or Reno in Nevada. It describes how one could feel while trying one's luck at casinos including increasing one's money at the slot machines, the amount of money spent during the day on food and drink, and how a random number generator can work for, or against your luck. It discusses the importance of luck and the role of providence in life.