Cyclist rides Iditarod, Iron Dog trails

04/20/13 - 9:00pm

FAIRBANKS (AP) — There were several times during his epic, 2,000-mile bike odyssey that Billy Koitzsch wanted to quit.

Pushing his fully loaded, 115-pound fatbike through snowdrifts and 35 mph headwinds going across Norton Sound between Shaktoolik and Koyuk, for example, a 50-mile stretch that took him 19 hours.

“It was brutal,” Koitzsch said. “You’d push through a drift, ride for 150 feet, push through a drift, ride for 150 feet.

“The wind blew me over,” he added. “The bike was so big and so heavy the wind just throws you to the ground.”

Hunter recalls mauling by Kodiak bear

05/06/12 - 8:25am

FAIRBANKS (AP) — One minute, Rodd Moretz was high-fiving his 13-year-old son, Caleb, after shooting the biggest brown bear of his life.

The next minute, he was tumbling down the hillside with another giant brown bear, wondering if he was going to die and how things could have gone from so good to so bad so quickly.

The father and son duo from Fairbanks had lucked out and each drawn permits to hunt the world’s largest brown bears on Kodiak Island.

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Fairbanks prepares for geese migration

04/08/12 - 7:49pm

The carpet has been rolled, or should we say plowed, out at Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge. All that’s missing are the geese.

The front field at Creamer’s Field was plowed Tuesday in anticipation of the arrival of the first Canada geese of the season in Fairbanks.

Sale of big game trophies now allowed after divorce

03/13/12 - 7:57am

FAIRBANKS (AP) — Alaskans who get divorced and don’t want to look at the moose head their hunting-crazy spouse hung on the wall now have an option. They can sell it.

While the Alaska Board of Game rejected a proposal to allow the sale of big game trophies in Alaska during its meeting in Fairbanks last week, the board agreed to add divorces to the list of special circumstances under which the sale of big game trophies in Alaska would be allowed.

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