When golden eagles migrate to and from Alaska each year, they have to fly around a huge obstacle: the 16,000-foot peaks of the Wrangell Mountains. Some of the eagles choose a route that skirts the ...

Kevin White has placed his hands on the long, white fur of more than 400 Alaska mountain goats during the past 20 years. His diligence in studying this Ice Age wanderer of high, steep country has led ...

The remote snow-covered Talkeetna Mountains in Alaska probably do not evoke thoughts of a diverse ocean ecosystem. But the rocks that make up this region have clued paleontologists into the existence ...

Alaska's mountains and oceans provide some of the most dramatic landscapes on earth. Anchorage trails have connected the Chugach Mountains and Cook Inlet for decades, with a few gaps. Just recently ...

Mount Churchill stands in a white corner of the Alaska map, deceptive in its cold, windblown silence. At least twice in the last few thousand years, the peak’s ice-covered caldera has spewed ash that ...

There’s perhaps no better way to spend fall in Alaska than by exploring the state’s national parks-especially if they include a fantastic kaleidoscope of autumn colors. But as the seasons change, ...

This article appears in the 2025 Photo Annual print issue of POWDER Magazine. The magazine is still available on newsstands near you, and can be shipped directly to your front door. Out of our group ...

The deadly landslide that crashed through the outskirts of Wrangell on the night of Nov. 20, 2023, is seen from the air on the following day. The landslide killed six people and blocked a major road, ...

While Wisconsin is still waiting on our first snow of fall there's plenty of it heading towards Alaska. Not a huge shocker that they're ahead of us in the snow department, but it's a sign of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Only 18 percent of Alaska’s land mass is accessible by car. It’s that remoteness—along, of course, with the massive mountains and ...

"I cried many times on that mountain," she said. Fina Kiefer said there was a moment where she thought she "wasn't going to make it." The 55-year-old hiker had been alone on an Alaska mountain for ...

Photos and words from an “intense” trip to an Alaskan gem. Out of our group of five skiers, Dave and I were the ones on the first flight in Drake’s small, modified Cessna. That meant we had the ...