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The first episode of ten in the first TV series to be filmed in Haines  wasn't as bad as we had expected. Haines looked good,  and the only local guy in it, truck driver Donny Braaten, represented us well.   Last summer the Discovery Channel filmed the Hoffman family...

So much to tell you about next week-- watching Gold Rush Alaska with friends and the Lighting of the Fort in the worst weather ever. The choir sang outside, knee deep in snow amidst torrential slush. But first, a little day of rest from my desk for me, and Sunday's...

 Susie was on the radio yesterday afternoon, in full Texas twang. She's from Philadelphia but her heart is in Texas, or was, it is in Alaska now,  where she noted as she read the weather forecast, that what we lack in length of daylight we make up for in quality....

 Pizza Joe's lovely wife Holly Jo and a friend made this short video for YouTube that shows the Haines Snow Dragon being put together in the Elks Lodge before the parade a couple years ago, and me and Pizza Joe (he's the head of the dragon, I was the smoke that year)...

 Here's an Alaska reality show I'll watch. (Okay, I do like Deadliest Catch, in small doses.) They call is Gold Rush Alaska, and it was filmed in Haines last summer. It's about some would-be gold miners working a claim up in the Porcupine near John Schnabel's mine and...

The bear tracks were coming down the mountain and we were going up. They were frozen and had been left in the slush, my husband and I reckoned, two days before our hike. The way the light snow had fallen that day, and the timing of their walk, had preserved the round...