There have been a lot of plane crashes in Alaska in the last few weeks.  A C-17 crashed at Elmendorf Air Force Base killing all four on board.  A C-17 crashed in Denali Park killing another three. A flight crashed outside Dillingham killing Alaska political giant former Senator Ted Stevens and four others. And then [...]

Thanks to Dennis Zaki, Brian the Mudflats moose had one heck of an adventure.  He got a ride with the Coast Guard all the way up to Alaska’s north shore, and the remote and starkly beautiful community of Barrow. With a population of about 4000 (ten times the number that lived there in 1940), Barrow lies [...]

I promised a better blog post than my bleary-eyed one yesterday night.  So, here’s my day up north. 4:15am – Alarm goes off.  Eye opens. Denial.  Hand slaps snooze button. 4:30am – Alarm goes off.  Eye opens.  Horror at the realization it really is time to get up. 4:35am – Shower, teeth, hair, clothes, bag, [...]

I found an interesting and sobering article in Business Week that talks about fatal airline flights, and other hazards of regional airlines.  We focus a lot of energy on the safety of our larger airlines, but don’t give a lot of thought to smaller, regional ones. Issues of pilot training, what planes are allowed to [...]

OK, it’s not really an ice fortress… it’s more like a lovely, eccentric (and very tall) log cabin.  Don, our official Mudflats aviator took to the air today and sent back these pictures of an interesting structure somewhere between Anchorage and Talkeetna.  I’m guessing there must be one heck of a view from the top floor.  I wonder if [...]