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After the Rain
After turning off a local Facebook thread with a shout one more time over the current leadership's insistence that places like the pool, museum and library need to make money and pay for their own way, and almost tossing the iPad out the door into the rain, there...
Basketball Dinner Tonight
Morning Muscles was crowded today-- and it was already light on the way there at 5:50am, which is heartening. Although that will change with the Spring Ahead time change Sunday. I have no idea why Alaska participates in that. It is a bummer in the fall when we roll...
Last Update on Missing Hiker
This is the last update from me-- read the local papers for the whole scoop. (The Chilkat Valley News and Skagway News.) After refusing medical treatment here, pilot Drake flew the rescued man to Skagway, where he is apparently now home safe and (I think) sound. Read...
Great Good News
They found the hiker-- and the Coast Guard picked him up off the Meade Glacier and took him to Juneau for medical treatment! Here is the story from the Daily News. Oh, good news is so nice isn't it?
News on Hiker
The Anchorage Daily has this update on the hiker stuck on the Meade Glacier-- it looks like the Coast Guard turned back again today, and the Juneau Mountain Rescue crew wasn't able to land close enough. Right now the weather looks okay over that way-- calm and...
Best Alaska Memoir, Ever? Maybe.
This just in from Booklist- a starred review! I'm going to have a heart attack. Or dye the gray out of my hair. Actually, I'm cleaning for a library board potluck supper tonight at my house then going for a snowshoe. Booklist gave Take Good Care of the Garden and the...
News and News
It is so interesting that on Monday the news was all over the papers-- Extreme Hiker Missing in Tongass was one headline--and that here in Haines we had no idea the hiker was in our backyard. Then, just as we are all talking about it and wondering and worrying-- the...