Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:22:01 PST http://alaskatrekker.com/index.htm Alaska News, Vacation, and Tourism Information. We have the most up to date informational site about Alaska on the web. Copyright 2008 AlaskaTrekker.com en-us Alaska Travel and Cruise Information 60 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:22:01 PST http://alaskatrekker.com/alaska_state_fair.htm#When12:22:01PM http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alaskatrekkercom/~3/356832125/alaska_state_fair.htm The Alaska State Fair is held at the Palmer Fairgounds each fall in the beautiful Matanuska Valley. Over 300,000 visitors show up to see lush flower gardens, record-setting giant vegetables and musical entertainment. http://alaskatrekker.com/alaska_state_fair.htm#When12:22:01PM Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:18:01 PST http://alaskatrekker.com/hatcher_pass.htm#When12:18:01PM http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alaskatrekkercom/~3/356832126/hatcher_pass.htm Hatcher Pass is a beautiful recreation area 3886 feet up in the Talkeetna Mountains of Alaska. It's a popular place for skiing, snowmobiling, camping, hunting, white-water kayaking, berry-picking, parapenting, climbing, recreational gold-mining, mountain biking ans especially hiking. http://alaskatrekker.com/hatcher_pass.htm#When12:18:01PM Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:02:03 PST http://alaskatrekker.com/alaska_highway.htm#When11:02:03AM http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alaskatrekkercom/~3/316621491/alaska_highway.htm Before you start planning your trip down the Alaska Highway, get "The Milepost". It is an invaluable 768 page book that documents the entire trip including every gas station and motel along the way. The Alaska Highway (also called the ALCAN Highway) is a long 1,390 mile (2,237 km) road stretching from Delta Junction, Alaska at its northwestern end to Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada at its southeastern end. http://alaskatrekker.com/alaska_highway.htm#When11:02:03AM Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:06:05 PST http://alaskatrekker.com/berrypicking.htm#When15:06:05PM http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alaskatrekkercom/~3/316621492/berrypicking.htm Berry picking brings out Alaskans in droves to their favorite spots. In Alaska there are plenty of berries to go around and you can pick all you want. Blueberries are at their peak. http://alaskatrekker.com/berrypicking.htm#When15:06:05PM Tue, 10 April 2007 17:09:07 PST http://alaskatrekker.com/news10019.htm#When17:09:07PM http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alaskatrekkercom/~3/316621493/news10019.htm Ants-Ken Philip says ants aren't really the muscle-bound insects people trump them up to be. And he should know. Philip and his helpers have built up a vast collection of northern butterflies that will someday belong to the Smithsonian Institution. http://alaskatrekker.com/news10019.htm#When17:09:07PM Mon, 26 March 2007 15:49:07 PST http://alaskatrekker.com/news10018.htm#When15:49:07PM http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alaskatrekkercom/~3/316621494/news10018.htm While helping Alaska Native whale hunter Billy Adams cut sections of blubber from a bowhead whale, Biologist Craig George pressed his knife into a deep scar in the whale's skin. http://alaskatrekker.com/news10018.htm#When15:49:07PM Mon, 06 March 2007 15:49:07 PST http://alaskatrekker.com/news10017.htm#When12:33:07PM http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alaskatrekkercom/~3/316621495/news10017.htm Seasons are not what they once were in Alaska. Ice roads on Alaska's North Slope have a shorter lifespan than they had 30 years ago. The extent of sea ice hugging the northern coastlines gets smaller every year. These changes affect Alaskans and people who work in Alaska, and a few scientists just received funding to make climate science user-friendly for those people. http://alaskatrekker.com/news10017.htm#When12:33:07PM Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:21:01 PST http://alaskatrekker.com/news10016.htm#When12:21:01PM http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alaskatrekkercom/~3/316621496/news10016.htm While trolling the poster sessions at the Moscone Center in San Francisco during the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (attended by more than 13,000 scientists), a person bumps into a great deal of information on Alaska. http://alaskatrekker.com/news10016.htm#When12:21:01PM Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:31:01 PST http://alaskatrekker.com/news10015.htm#When18:31:01PM http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alaskatrekkercom/~3/316621497/news10015.htm On December 8, 2006, in the middle of Alaska, the air temperature on the roof of the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks 37 degrees Fahrenheit. The normal high temperature for this date is 5 degrees. A chinook wind is blowing over Alaska. http://alaskatrekker.com/news10015.htm#When18:31:01PM Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:13:01 PST http://alaskatrekker.com/news10014.htm#When07:13:01AM http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alaskatrekkercom/~3/316621498/news10014.htm The blackened scars that Alaska fires leave on the landscape may result in more lightning, more rain in some areas just downwind of the scars, and less rain farther away. http://alaskatrekker.com/news10014.htm#When07:13:01AM Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:41:01 PST http://alaskatrekker.com/trees.htm#When18:41:01PM http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alaskatrekkercom/~3/316621499/trees.htm Alaska trees with pictures and descriptions. http://alaskatrekker.com/trees.htm#When18:41:01PM Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:53:01 PST http://alaskatrekker.com/news10013.htm#When16:53:01PM http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alaskatrekkercom/~3/316621500/news10013.htm There aren't many places left in the world where animals make a comeback after they've disappeared, but an island in the western Aleutians may be a pleasant exception. http://alaskatrekker.com/news10013.htm#When16:53:01PM Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:55:01 PST http://alaskatrekker.com/news10012.htm#When21:55:01PM http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alaskatrekkercom/~3/316621501/news10012.htm Things didn't look good for the five frozen wood frogs....The temperature at frog level, under a few inches of snow and moss, had dipped to 10 degrees Fahrenheit in December. http://alaskatrekker.com/news10012.htm#When21:55:01PM Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:50:01 PST http://alaskatrekker.com/news10011.htm#When05:50:01AM http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alaskatrekkercom/~3/316621502/news10011.htm As one of the aurora forecasters at the Geophysical Institute located on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus, Charles Deehr has emailed people around the world who want to know when the northern lights will appear above their heads. http://alaskatrekker.com/news10011.htm#When05:50:01AM Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:38:01 PST http://alaskatrekker.com/news10009.htm#When06:38:01AM http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alaskatrekkercom/~3/316621503/news10009.htm During a good year in Bristol Bay, a surge of more than 100 million pounds of sockeye salmon fights its way uPSTream, spawns, and dies. http://alaskatrekker.com/news10009.htm#When06:38:01AM Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:14:03 PST http://alaskatrekker.com/news10007.htm#When09:14:03AM http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alaskatrekkercom/~3/316621504/news10007.htm During the early 19th century, some of the best scientific minds of the period believed that the aurora was caused by the reflection of sunlight from tiny ice crystals suspended high in the atmosphere. It remained for the Norwegian physicist Anders Angstrom to prove that this could not be true. http://alaskatrekker.com/news10007.htm#When09:14:03AM