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This past summer, I made my first trip over to Wrangell since I was about 12. Nothing against the town, I just never really had a reason to go. I went with a group of friends from Juneau on the Alaska Marine Highway boat and, as it happens, they didn’t know what to do in …
Two of my nieces and I went out to the Mendenhall Glacier last week and, on our way out to the waterfall, the older one asked me what color bears are. I told her that there are brown bears (which are often called “grizzlies”), black bears, and polar bears, which are usually white. She points …
A couple of weeks ago, I took a trip to Sitka to visit a friend of mine for his birthday and to help him get ready to move. As we drove down Lincoln Street, I pointed at one of the buildings and said, “What’s that?” He looks at me and says, “Bro, you don’t know …
Last week, I was walking down the streets of downtown Juneau and I stopped in front of one of the bars to check a text message on my phone. As soon as I put the phone back in my pocket, I heard one of the phrases I hear most often downtown, “Hey man, do you …
When I was a junior at Juneau-Douglas High School, I worked downtown three days a week. Not directly after school, mind you, there was about a two-hour gap between the final bell and when I could clock in for work. Every work night, I did the same thing after school. I walked over to the …
I recently took a day trip with some friends up to Skagway and, on the Alaska Marine Highway ferry ride up from Juneau, we discussed what we wanted to do while we were in town. The one thing everyone agreed that we wanted to do was to check out the famous Gold Rush Cemetery that …
My aunt and uncle told us that they were coming up to Alaska for Christmas and they were going to make a stop in Juneau. I haven’t seen them in years, so we were naturally very excited to see them and drive them around town. We asked them what they wanted to see and they …
Gustavus, a town of about 600 people in Southeast Alaska, is known as The Gateway City to Glacier Bay National Park for a very good reason but the activity here isn’t limited to the park! There are many other great things to do in and around the town itself. People often ask how to say …
Most of this has been moved to the Angoon City Page When most people hear the phrase “a town in Southeast Alaska,” Angoon will not be the first one that comes to their mind. After all, it’s a small Tlingit village of just under 500 people. Some people may remember the semi-viral internet music video …
The village of Hoonah, Alaska, is one of the best places in all of Southeast Alaska to learn about Native Alaskan culture, as it is one of the few remaining classic Tlingit villages in the southeast panhandle. Most of the activity here is centered around that, as well as fishing, like most coastal Alaskan towns. …