Local Alaskan wins avalanche grand prize Alaska Safe Riders Lifelong Alaskan, Joe Lammers, has had some close calls during his years growing up in Fairbanks. “I’ve been in a few scenarios where I saw that being trained and having the right equipment was super...
September is National Emergency Preparedness Month. Thanks to a grant from the Mat-Su Health Foundation, schools in the Mat-Su Valley have the opportunity to help students learn what being prepared means and actions they can take personally, whether they are in...
Jim Whisman, a retired Lynden long-haul truck driver with millions (and I mean five-plus millions) of accident-free miles, once told me that driving is often hours and hours of boredom interrupted by seconds of sheer terror. For most of us, we may go weeks, months and...
In May Alaska Safe Riders held All-Terrain-Vehicle (ATV) and Side-by-Side (UTV) training courses near the Jim Creek Recreation Site just outside of Palmer. During the second four-day class, professional trainers taught riders from the Chugach National Forest Service...
Racing across the open coast of Alaska at eighty-miles an hour, the beam from headlamps bouncing across the ice belied the danger ahead. The frozen tundra under their sleds suddenly turned black and smooth like freshly frozen ice. Thin ice. Decisions. Take the short...
