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Outdoor Activities

HOUSEBOATING IN THE NORTHWEST

BY LESLEE JAQUETTE While beaching our 65-foot houseboat down a secluded arm of British Columbia’s Shuswap Lake, we sight a grizzly bear swimming to shore. Paddling leisurely, Ursus horribilis ignores us completely. He clambers up the beach, shakes like a dog and lumbers into the forest. Houseboating on the Shuswap, as well as a number […]

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Travel

Fairbanks Winter Guide available for free

Fairbanks, Alaska (AK) – The 2013-2014 Fairbanks Winter Guide is now available for free. The 32-page full-color booklet with winter activity listings and an action-packed events calendar offers an informative, yet lighthearted view of winter in Alaska’s Interior and the Arctic. Primarily because aurora borealis viewing is commonplace here, Fairbanks was named #2 of the […]