Like the schoolkids in Jackson, cross-country students in Nuiqsut, Alaska, a village north of the Arctic Circle, delighted in finding hills to ski down. (ANJA MAIJALA PHOTO)
Skiku trip leader, Anja Maijala and a group of elementary school skiers on the Nechelik Channel, where we found miles of dry powder for touring. (COURTESY ELLEN CHANDLER)
Like the schoolkids in Jackson, cross-country students in Nuiqsut, Alaska, a village north of the Arctic Circle, delighted in finding hills to ski down. (ANJA MAIJALA PHOTO)
Ellen Chandler stands under an arch of whalebones in Alaska. (COURTESY PHOTO)
Several friendly village dogs came out to join the fun. (ANJA MAIJALA PHOTO)
Skiku trip leader, Anja Maijala and a group of elementary school skiers on the Nechelik Channel, where we found miles of dry powder for touring. (COURTESY ELLEN CHANDLER)
By Ellen Chandler, Special to The Conway Daily Sun
NUIQSUT, Alaska — When my duties as Executive Director of Jackson Ski Touring Foundation slowed down for the season, I took off on what a friend of mine described as a “busman’s holiday.” From idyllic Mount Washington Valley I traveled to “the top of Alaska” — and I mean truly the top. Utqiagvik, Alaska, (formerly Barrow) is located well north of the Arctic Circle on the Arctic Ocean.
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