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    The Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic (sometimes called the Alaska Wilderness Classic) is an adventure challenge that espouses purity of style and zero...
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    Dolls Kenai River Brown Bears Mat-Su Miners Peninsula Oilers Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic Arctic Winter Games Mount Marathon Race World Extreme Skiing...
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    Packraft (category Sports in Alaska)
    Introduction and How-to Guide. Beartooth Mountain Press, Bozeman, MT. 2008 Alaskan Alpine Club. "Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic Race reports". Archived from the...
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    week-long, North American event called the Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic debuted. It involved wilderness travel—no roads, no pack animals, and no support...
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    Harding Icefield (category Ice fields of Alaska)
    Chernof solo in one day as part of the Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic. List of glaciers and ice fields "Alaska Science Forum: "Harding Icefield's Loss...
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    40 years after Alaska had done so, the United States Department of the Interior announced the change of the official name of the mountain to Denali. In...
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    K'dalkitnu) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 1,055, up from 876...
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    Mount Deborah (category Mountains of Denali Borough, Alaska)
    Mount Deborah is a mountain in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is one of the major peaks of the eastern Alaska Range. Despite its low absolute elevation (compared...
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  • Heroes of the Frontier (category Novels set in Alaska)
    A. Knopf published the book on July 26, 2016. Set in the rugged wilderness of Alaska, the story follows Josie, a disillusioned single mother who goes...
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  • Galen Rowell (category American mountain climbers)
    Galen Avery Rowell (August 23, 1940 – August 11, 2002) was a wilderness photographer, adventure photojournalist and mountaineer. Born in Oakland, California...
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  • Chris McCandless (category Accidental deaths in Alaska)
    completed several lengthy wilderness hiking trips and paddled a canoe down a portion of the Colorado River before hitchhiking to Alaska in April 1992. McCandless...
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    on Public Lands and (2004). Alaska Native Allotment Subdivision Act, Alaska Land Transfer Facilities Act, Ojito Wilderness Act, and Inventory and Management...
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    Mountains. Beavers Bend State Park Black Fork Mountain Wilderness Caney Creek Wilderness Cossatot River State Park-Natural Area Flatside Wilderness Heavener...
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    Olaus Murie (section Alaska)
    the Aleutian Islands and Alaska Peninsula (NAF No. 61, 1959); and Jackson Hole with a Naturalist (1963). Wapiti Wilderness (with his wife, Mardy Murie)...
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    Kim Heacox (category Writers from Alaska)
    Arnold and Accent Alaska. In 2000 he won the Daniel Housberg Wilderness Image Award for Excellence in Still Photography from the Alaska Conservation Foundation...
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  • along the Yukon River into Alaska.: 63–64  The following is excerpted from Calvin Rutstrum's book, The New Way of the Wilderness (1958):: 1  Starting out...
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  • David Brower (category American mountain climbers)
    Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run (New York: HarperCollins, 1995). ISBN 0-06-251430-X Brower, David, & the Sierra Club, eds., Wilderness: America's...
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    or archaeological significance. Eight national parks (including six in Alaska) are paired with a national preserve, areas with different levels of protection...
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    hikers and skiers. Unlike in classic systems, they do not refer to paths or trails, but show the way to the nearest mountain huts and adjacent towns and...
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    (/kɔːrˈdoʊvə, ˈkɔːrdəvə/ kor-DOH-və, KOR-də-və) is a city in Chugach Census Area, Alaska, United States. It lies near the mouth of the Copper River, at the head...
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    Mount Elbert (category Mountains of Colorado)
    is Mount Whitney in California. Including Alaska and Hawaii, Mount Elbert is the fourteenth-highest mountain in the United States. Weather conditions often...
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    pine, Alaska yellow cedar, and noble fir are found further up the mountain. In the alpine level, Alaskan yellow cedar, subalpine fir, and mountain hemlock...
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    Conservation, Recreation, and Resources. Alaska: based in Juneau, Alaska, the Alaska Region (R10) covers one state (Alaska), and two National Forests. The Forest...
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    Jon Krakauer (category American mountain climbers)
    in 1977, Krakauer spent three weeks alone in the wilderness of the Stikine Icecap region of Alaska and climbed a new route on the Devils Thumb, an experience...
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    Mount Adams (Washington) (category Mountains of Skamania County, Washington)
    Adams Wilderness along the west slope of Mount Adams offers an abundance of opportunities for hiking, backpacking, backcountry camping, mountain climbing...
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  • Allen Steck (category American mountain climbers)
    In Galen Rowell (ed.). The Vertical World of Yosemite. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press. pp. 21–28. ISBN 0-911824-87-1. "Trailwise Ski Hut Berkeley products"...
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    Adolph Murie (category People from Denali Borough, Alaska)
    on wolves, bears, and other mammals and birds in Arctic and sub-Arctic Alaska. He was also instrumental in protecting wolves from eradication and in preserving...
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  • the World's Most Feared Mountain 2005: Peter Stark, At the Mercy of the River: An Exploration of the Last African Wilderness 2006: Karsten Heuer, Being...
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    Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains. Mountaineering-related activities include...
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    enjoy this beautiful wilderness. Bicycles are allowed in the park but only on the same roads that vehicles are allowed on. No mountain bike access is allowed...
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