Alaska Dispatch News
Martin Buser on being part of an elite club
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- Martin Buser on being part of an elite club
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- 12 years ago
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- Few people can relate to the tribulations and exaltations of running the Last Great Race. According to the Iditarod champion Martin Buser, only about 700 people have completed the 1,000-mile race to Nome and of those, only 20 have won. Martin Buser is part of an elite club of six people with at least four Iditarod victories, along Susan Butcher, Doug Swingley, Lance Mackey, Rick Swenson and Jeff King. This year Buser hopes to join Swenson, the only five-time champion.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch: http://j.mp/akdsptchbuserelite
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- Aliy Zirkle on being a top female athlete
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- 12 years ago
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- Two-time Iditarod runner up Aliy Zirkle of Two Rivers moved to the remote Alaska community of Bettles, above the Arctic Circle, after college to work in biology. She adopted six dogs and decided to give mushing a try. Little did she know that some 20 years later, she would be one of the top dog mushers in the world and one of the best women ever in her sport. While Zirkle's drive has made her a model for many young women across the country, she didn't start mushing because of feminist leanings. "I never got into dog mushing for any gender-specific reason," says Zirkle. She did it for the love of her dogs and the satisfaction of training and competing, she said.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch: http://j.mp/akdspatchaliyathlete
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- Jeff King on what keeps him going
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- 12 years ago
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- Four-time Iditarod champion Jeff King of Denali Park always loved Jack London's tales of the Last Frontier when he was growing up in California. King came to Alaska in 1975 for a summer job, discovered sled dog racing, and has lived in Alaska ever since. Husky Homestead Kennel has been King's home for more than 30 years. He's raised three daughters, was married for 26 years, started a thriving dog sled tourism business, and trained for 22 Iditarods from Husky Homestead, located just a mile from the entrance to Denali National Park.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch: http://j.mp/akdsptchkinggoing
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- DeeDee Jonrowe's unbridled determination
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- 12 years ago
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- Legendary dog musher DeeDee Jonrowe of Willow, Alaska is still as driven as ever, even after competing in 31 Iditarods. Her 5-foot-1-inch frame doesn't do justice to her unbridled determination. Jonrowe is one of the foremost female dog mushers in the world, with 16 top-10 Iditarod finishes under her belt.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch: http://j.mp/akdsptchdeedeedriven
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- Aurora Borealis February 18, 2014 Fairbanks, Alaska
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- 12 years ago
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- Jan DeNapoli is a neurosurgery PA for Alaska Neuroscience Associates. She has been doing photography as a hobby for over 35 years. She took these photos on Chena Hot Springs Road outside of Fairbanks from two places, first in her yard (mile 17) and then a few miles out to the Two Rivers Community Center (mile 23). There are over 500 photos in this timelapse video. DeNapoli has lived in Alaska for over 20 years. She is also a dog musher who does dogsled tours in winter (check out muzzysplace.net for more info), fishing and sightseeing/photography charters in Valdez with our boat in summer (gdaycharters.com).
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- The 49th Estate: Monson, Butcher made Trail Breaker Kennel a cozy home
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- 12 years ago
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- David Monson and the late Susan Butcher met on the Iditarod Trail in 1979.
Monson says "she was passing" him, but the two connected after the race and married a few years later. After living in a cabin in Manly Hot Springs, about 80 miles northwest of Fairbanks on the Tanana River, they decided to have kids and move into town.
The pair had several criteria for their new home site. It had to have water on it -- they have both a lake and the Chena River. It had be a large enough tract to not disturb the neighbors -- moving 100 dogs into a residential area could be disruptive. And finally, it had to have access to trails; the trails alongside the kennel go all the way to Nome without crossing a road.
Read more about their home here: j.mp/akdsptchtrailbreaker
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- Daring fashions bring family together at Object Runway
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Isabelle first got the notion to participate from a family friend in 2012, when she was just 11 years old. Her mother, Veronica, was concerned if it was age appropriate, but decided that the event sounded like fun. It wound up being a good teaching moment, an event in which her daughter could learn about encouraging creativity, pursuing dreams, and following through on projects.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch: http://j.mp/akdsptchobjectrunway
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- Pete Seeger remembered at 25th Anchorage Folk Festival
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- The Anchorage Folk Festival celebrated it's 25th anniversary with a week long line up of folks players, dancing, and music workshops. Legendary banjo player Tony Trischka told tales of his dear friend Pete Seeger, and played several of his tunes, including a note for note version of Seeger's 1955 arrangement of the old Irving Berlin tune Blue Skies.
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- She found him dead, clutching spice pipe
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Kurtis Hildreth, 18, came to Alaska after graduating high school. He was living with his aunt's family in Wasilla to get a head start on the next phase of his life. But Hildreth's life didn't get a new beginning in the Last Frontier -- it ended abruptly, the young man found dead inside his room, a pipe filled with the synthetic drug known as Spice and a lighter, on the floor next to him. His family believes the drug killed him. But the state medical examiner and Alaska State troopers aren't sure.
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- Talkeetna's Wilderness Woman competition
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- 12 years ago
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- Legend has it there's nothing tougher than an Alaska woman, and one competition sets out to prove exactly who's the toughest.
Each year, a hardy group of women gathers in Talkeetna -- the small, quirky community of 900 people nestled in the northern Matanuska Valley -- for the annual Wilderness Woman Competition.
The challenges test a variety of "skills" any good Alaska woman should have, from hauling water and chopping wood to "shooting" a moose and making a sandwich for a man lounging in a recliner.
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- Grenadier Dive
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- This video of grenadier fish on the ocean floor, is from the NOAA Undersea Research Program, which is now part of NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration and Research.
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- Talkeetna, Alaska Bachelor Auction & Ball
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- This year's annual Talkeetna Bachelor Auction & Ball brought in record amounts of money in early December thanks to 40 bachelors who strutted their stuff on stage to the wild cries of 250 women.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch: http://j.mp/akdsptch-bachelorball
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- 31st Athabascan Fiddle Festival, old-time music and a sober good time
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- The 31st Annual Athabascan Fiddle Festival was held in Fairbanks in 2013. The sober event draws people of all ages, and it is thriving, a living connection to the days when fur traders and gold miners traveled up and down the Yukon River.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch. http://j.mp/akdsptchfiddlefest
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- Alaska artist Joel Isaak, fish skin designer
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- 13 years ago
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- Joel Isaak's latest medium might surprise you. The Athabascan artist and fashion designer's most recent work is a collection of pieces made with fish skin leather.
The designs debuted at the "Wear Art, Thou?" fashion show last week, an event put on by the Alaska Native Arts Foundation to help showcase work by Alaska Native artists, and to "bridge the gap between the art world, the Native art world, and people in general," according to Isaak.
Read the full article: http://j.mp/akdispatch-isaak
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- Alaska Dispatch - News and Voices from the Last Frontier
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Based in Anchorage, Alaska Dispatch offers news, features and commentary with a statewide focus. From political corruption to climate change to rural Alaska to the rise of Sarah Palin, Alaska media has struggled to cover stories of importance not only to Alaskans but to the rest of the nation. Alaska Dispatch, Alaska's online-only news site, is devoted to filling this journalism void. Whether reporting on powerful oil companies or on residents who live far from the urban centers where decisions are made, Alaska Dispatch's goal is to take an unflinching look at the state, from its massive riches to its abject poverty, and tell these stories to Alaskans and to the world.
Read more at http://www.alaskadispatch.com/
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- Dead Disko is an Anchorage dance party with artistic twist
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- To the people of the Northern Light Collective (NLC), Dead Disko, a monthly "undead dance party," is a meeting of artistic minds. The collaborative events combine light and video projections, dancing, body paint, and DJs mixing house and electronic tunes they've created or dug up on the Internet.
Read the full article: http://bit.ly/alaskadispatchdeaddisko
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- Baby Northern Fur Seal
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- No one is quite sure how a baby northern fur seal ended up in Sand Point, 200 miles from the nearest rookery in the Pribilof Islands, but caretakers at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward are relishing the opportunity to care for the animal. Read more here: http://j.mp/1gSCleM
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- Yup'ik storyteller John Active shares a scary story
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- When John Active was a little boy growing up in Bethel he used to listen to stories around his grandmother's table. Growing up with no TV or radio, Active, now 65, would sit there and listen as his grandmother, Maggie Lind, and other elders would entertain each other for hours with stories of the supernatural.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch: http://bit.ly/alaskadispatchscarystory
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- Inuit throat-singing sisters from Canada
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Karin and Kathy Kettler, the Canadian throat-singing sisters who together are known as Nukariik, carry on the traditions of the elders from their mothers' village in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik, which is located in northern Quebec.
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch: http://bit.ly/alaskadispatchnukariik
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- Good Samaritans Rescue 5 Mariners From Life Raft in Bering Sea, Alaska
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Good Samaritans aboard the 98-foot Seattle-based fishing vessel Aleutian Beauty, responding to a Coast Guard issued urgent marine information broadcast, rescue five uninjured fishermen from a life raft in the Bering Sea off the Alaskan coast Oct. 20, 2013. The mariners set off their emergency position indicating radio beacon, prompting a Coast Guard response, and abandoned ship into the life raft from the 59-foot Kodiak-based fishing vessel Western Venture after it caught fire 69 miles west of Adak. U.S. Coast Guard video by Air Station Kodiak.
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- Thursday Night at the Fights: Blood and hope mingle in the ring each week in Anchorage
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch: http://bit.ly/alaskadispatchthursfights
Thursday Night at the Fights is a club boxing event, with a weekly card from October through April, and is judged on pro rules. There are seven fights every Thursday -- two mixed martial arts matches and five boxing bouts. The range of fighters goes from first-timers to boxers with hundreds of matches under their belts. It's become a way for young men to become proud sportsmen who display raw aggressive nerve. The personal stories of many of the fighters are inspiring, whether they box to stay off the streets, out of prison, or to become role models in their communities.
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- Emmonak flooding
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Video from the airport in Emmonak, Alaska, showing Yukon River flooding in June 2013. Read the full story at Alaska Dispatch.
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- USCG Plane Crash Evacuation near Petersburg
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew rescues survivors from a plane crash near Petersburg, Alaska, June 4, 2013. The Coast Guard worked with Alaska State Troopers and commercial helicopter crews to locate and rescue the survivors. U.S. Coast Guard video by Air Station Sitka.
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- Alaska's Pavlof Volcano erupting (Part 4)
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- On May 17, 2013, Chris Owens, who runs Conundrum Ventures, flew by Pavlof Volcano in Alaska, shooting video of the eruption. Watch more of his videos and photos of Pavlof's eruption at http://tinyurl.com/bgg4gfh
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- Alaska's Pavlof Volcano erupting (Part 3)
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- On May 17, 2013, Chris Owens, who runs Conundrum Ventures, flew by Pavlof Volcano in Alaska, shooting video of the eruption. Watch more of his videos and photos of Pavlof's eruption at http://tinyurl.com/bgg4gfh
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- Alaska's Pavlof Volcano eruption
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- On May 17, 2013, Chris Owens, who runs Conundrum Ventures, flew by Pavlof Volcano in Alaska, shooting video of the eruption. Watch more of his videos and photos of Pavlof's eruption at http://tinyurl.com/bgg4gfh
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- Alaska's Pavlof Volcano erupting (Part 2)
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- On May 17, 2013, Chris Owens, who runs Conundrum Ventures, flew by Pavlof Volcano in Alaska, shooting video of the eruption. Watch more of his videos and photos of Pavlof's eruption at http://tinyurl.com/bgg4gfh
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- Alaska's Pavlof Volcano erupting (Part 1)
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- On May 17, 2013, Chris Owens, who runs Conundrum Ventures, flew by Pavlof Volcano in Alaska, shooting video of the eruption. Watch more of his videos and photos of Pavlof's eruption at http://tinyurl.com/bgg4gfh
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- Anchorage Police Dashboard Camera Car Chase and Shooting
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- On February 19, 2013 Anchorage Police shot and killed Carl Bowie III. Bowie stole a truck and ran from police, striking three police cruisers and almost hitting an officer on foot, before he was shot three times. This police cruiser dashboard camera footage is overlain with police radio traffic, and shows Bowie driving his truck toward police and the officers firing on him.
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- HD Northern Lights timelapse, Eureka, Alaska March 2013
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- A timelapse of the Aurora Borealis, Northern Lights, over Eureka, Alaska on March 16, 2013. Taken with a Canon 5D Mark III and 24mm f/1.4 and 70-200 f/2.8 lenses. Compiled from 3800 images, with exposures between 2 seconds and 30 seconds.
Music: Buildings Stays Offshore
by Augustus Bro & Gallery Six
from 千の森湖に、日出づる(EP)
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- Iditarod 2013: Howling sled dogs in Alaska village of Takotna
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- 13 years ago
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- At the remote Alaska village of Takotna, dogs howl in the night on March 6, 2013, during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The musher closest to the camera is Joar Leifseth Ulsom, and behind are Ray Redington Jr. and Cim Smyth. (Video by Loren Holmes | AlaskaDispatch.com)
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- Alaska Dispatch Television Commercial
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- New commercial presents Alaska Dispatch to television viewers across Alaska. The commercial is airing on CNN, KTUU, KTVA and other stations.
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- Party erupts in downtown Anchorage, Alaska for incoming FedEx 727 jet
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Boeing 727 jets are a dime a dozen in the skies over Alaska's largest city, but it's not every day that one lands on Merrill Field, Anchorage's little community airfield just east of downtown. Alaskans turned out in droves, lining balconies, balancing on snowberms and hanging onto chain-link fences, faces pressed up close like kids at a zoo, to see the jet buzz a mall and land alongside 5th Avenue commuters. Read more at Alaska Dispatch.
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- Kulluk towing plan animation
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- This is a video animation showing the Unified Command's planned route for towing the Kulluk from its current location to a safe harbor at Kiluida Bay, Alaska.
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- USCG crew delivers staging materials to grounded Arctic drill rig Kulluk
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Waves crash on grounded Shell drilling ship in Alaska
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- On Dec. 31, 2012, a Royal Dutch Shell drilling ship, the Kulluk, ran aground at remote Sitkalidak Island in Alaska. The next day, a U.S. Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew flew over the conical drilling rig. The weather conditions were 40-mph winds with 20-foot seas. This footage was shot by Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis.
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- Surveillance video Samantha Koenig kidnapping
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- 14 years ago
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- Surveillance video, released by the Anchorage Police Department, showing Israel Keyes abducting Samantha Koenig at the coffee stand she worked on Feb. 1, 2012. In this video Keyes can be seen approaching the stand, ordering an americano, and pulling out a gun. He forces her to turn off the lights, then he ties her hands and leads her away to his truck. He kills her at his home later that night.
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- Hiland Mountain Correctional Center Women's Orchestra
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- For almost a decade, the prison orchestra at Hiland Mountain has provided welcome structure and expression for inmates hoping to challenge themselves to grow despite being locked up. And their holiday concert is coming up.
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- Alaska northern lights timelapse: Winter's prize for sun-starved Alaskans
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- 14 years ago
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- Recorded in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2012. Footage taken between Sheep Mountain and Eureka Roadhouse, Alaska.
482 still photos taken between 1:48 AM and 6:43 AM
Camera: Canon 5D Mark III
Lens: 24mm f/1.4 L II
Exposure: 30s at f/2.0, ISO 2500
Low temperature: -22 fahrenheit
Cans of redbull: 4
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- Northern Lights Nov 8, 2012 Knik River
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- 14 years ago
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- Northern lights dance over southcentral Alaska's Knik river on November 8, 2012 between 2:00 and 3:00am.
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- AFN Elders and Youth conference welcome rap Allison Warden AKU-MATU
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Inupiat rapper Allison Warden welcomes participants to the Elders and Youth Conference at AFN 2012.
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- Savoonga dance: Rock 'n Roll
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Coast Guard rescue off Sitka, Alaska
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- 14 years ago
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- A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew safely hoists a mariner from the Gulf of Alaska Sept. 8, 2012. The rescued man spent more than 24 hours drifting in a fish tote before being located by a good Samaritan fishing vessel and rescued by the aircrew. U.S. Coast Guard video by Air Station Sitka.
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- Craig Medred vs. Chris Matthews
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- 14 years ago
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- Alaska Dispatch's Craig Medred turns the tables on Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball. Hear from Chris on what the nation thinks about Alaska and the Arctic.
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- EXCLUSIVE: Arctic Thunder 2012 Golden Knights Helmet Cam
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- 14 years ago
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- Take a ride with the US Army's Golden Knights as they jump from 12,500' over Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Sunday, July 29, 2012.
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- Big Alaskan Halibut
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- What to do in Anchorage on a rainy day
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- 14 years ago
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- Anchorage may be known for it's Big Wild Life, but even on a rainy day there is plenty to do. Join us as we visit some of the best indoor things Anchorage has to offer.
Read more: http://www.adn.com/video/video-what-do-anchorage-rainy-day
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- Anchorage Police Department Shane Tasi Shooting
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Surveillance video of the June 9, 2012 fatal police shooting of Shane Tasi, in the Mountain View neighborhood of Anchorage, Alaska.
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- Alaska state officials confiscating illegally harvested fish in Akiak
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Alaska Dept of Fish and Game confiscating illegally harvested fish in Akiak. Reader submission.
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- Army vessel grounded in Alaska, leaks 15,000 gallons of diesel in salmon waters
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- A U.S. Army transport and landing craft struck a rock 2.5 miles south of the town of Kodiak, Alaska, late June 8, 2012, unleashing more than 15,000 gallons of diesel into the salmon-rich waters. On June 9, response workers from Alaska Chadux and the U.S. Coast Guard assessed damage to the Army vessel.
For more on this story, visit http://tinyurl.com/d2udvlw
U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Klingenberg.
