It was Feb. 18, one week before the start of the Iditarod Trail Invitational, when I casually logged onto the recreation.gov Web site and...

Typically I love roadtripping, but I retain a stubborn amnesia about driving in Alaska during the winter — the frost-heaved pavement, ru...

Coming off the Iditarod Trail, I was quickly swept into an emotional tempest, and not a good one. Why such a negative response? I couldn...