The full travelogue is here.ALASKA in winter is an intimidating prospect: one characterized by frigid temperatures, long nights and forbidding landscapes blanketed in snow and ice. At 7 a.m. on a dark winter day last February, when I found myself awake and aboard the Alaska Railroad's annual ski train to Grandview, the sun had yet to rise, and the train was filled with slumbering bodies.
Riding the Ski Train to Backcountry Alaska
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Posted 30 December 2005 - 11:59 PM
From the New York Times, 12/30/05:
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Posted 30 September 2015 - 09:39 AM
Tickets for popular ski train go on sale Thursday
With the prospect of snow in this week’s forecast, the sale of tickets for Anchorage’s popular Ski Train couldn’t happen at a better time for the sponsoring Nordic Ski Association of Anchorage.
https://www.adn.com/...o-sale-thursday
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