A blast of rain and more than a foot of wet snow have created "very dangerous avalanche conditions" in Turnagain Pass for backcountry skiers.Turnagain Pass is located roughly a 100-mile drive south of Anchorage, and the highway to points south (Kenai, Soldotna, Seward, Homer) goes through it. The rest is here.
Matt Murphy of the Chugach National Forest Avalanche Information Center on Monday warned that "the current weather is dropping the biggest and heaviest load the snowpack has seen this year."The snowpack underneath this warmer, wetter snow that fell in the last 24 hours is bad for avalanche stability. Travel in avalanche terrain is not recommended."
Anchorage Cancels H1N1 Clinics Due to Low Turnout
The city is canceling five scheduled public swine-flu vaccination clinics for Anchorage residents and will instead give more vaccine to health care providers and pharmacies, which are going through their allocations quickly, city Health Department officials said Monday.So it seems few people want the vaccine. Gee, who'da thunk it?
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The city held its first public mass swine-flu vaccination clinic at UAA Saturday but turnout was less than expected. Fewer than 900 people got the vaccine, a city official said.
Sunken Gold Rush Ship Discovered in Yukon Territory
A team of Canadian and U.S. marine archaeologists has discovered a long-lost shipwreck in the depths of the Yukon's legendary Lake Laberge that is being hailed as a "time capsule" from the Klondike. The "perfectly preserved" 19th-century sternwheeler A.J. Goddard -- named for a U.S. shipping merchant who pioneered Yukon River transport during the wild race for Canadian gold in the 1890s -- went down in a storm more than a century ago.It's a fascinating glimpse of this 1901 shipwreck.
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"The boiler door is hanging open with the firewood they'd thrown in," he said. "There are bags of tools and somebody's coat lying there on the deck, and the boots that the engineer probably kicked off as he was drowning lie close to his station."
2 comments:
re the A.J. Goddard---Let me know if they find that fella from Tennessee inside the furnace. McGee was his name, I believe.
And as for the H1N1 vaccinations...heck, if the folks can survive the Alaskan winter, how's a little swine flu going to lay them low? The virus probably dies in minus 10 degrees anyway.
LOL - okay reading this made me cold and I had to go find a jacket and scarf to put on... but my hands are still not happy. ;-)
As for the vaccine, since I work at home and have no kids in school, I don't really see the point of getting it. Heh.
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