Tag Archives: Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
A wild life
Cancer has claimed Dan Gabryszak, a backwoods Renaissance man who built a life for himself and his family along the Yentna River north of Anchorage when it was still a wilderness a world away from his California roots. Everyone who traveled the now popular, Alaska waterway in the past three decades knew, or knew of, Dan and the Gabryszak family at Yentna Station Roadhouse. Today it is a refueling stop or place to grab a burger for riverboat drivers in summer and a winter swarm of snowmachine riders, mushers, fat bikers or the occasional skier. Forty years ago, it was a considerably different and quieter place where Gabryszak and his wife Jeannette – Jean to friends – nearly starved to death their first winter. >click to read< 17:40
“Mushing to save Bristol Bay” – Set netter with a mission hits the Iditarod Trail
In summer months, Monica Zappa is hard at work with fishing partner Tim Osmar, working his set net site at Kasilof on the Kenai Peninsula for sockeye salmon. In winter months, the couple, who live off the grid in the Peninsula’s Caribou Hills, are mushing dogs. Since 2012 they have been mushing for a cause they care deeply about, protecting the salmon and salmon habitat of Bristol Bay from the dangers of large scale mines. When Zappa set out on her third Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race at Willow on March 6, a banner proclaiming “clean water, wild salmon” was affixed to her sled. Read the rest here 09:54
