Topic: Freezer Burned
Freezer Burned: Tales of Interior Alaska
Written on January 2, 2021 at 5:30 am, by Hayley Day
“Freezer Burned: Tales of Interior Alaska” is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi. Cold Weather and Fuzzy Thinking Whenever I look into the rearview mirror of my life gone by in Alaska; feeling nostalgic, needing a laugh and reality check, I call up Archie. But like pickled herring piled Continue Reading
Freezer Burned: Tales of Interior Alaska
Written on December 20, 2020 at 5:30 am, by Hayley Day
“Freezer Burned: Tales of Interior Alaska” is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi. The Mail Will Be Delivered: Part I On a dazzling autumn day, sometime in the mid-1930s, Eddie Hindermann tipped his hat back pausing in his labors, leaning on a shovel, catching a blow. He squinted while Continue Reading
Freezer Burned: Snowshoe Hares
Written on December 4, 2020 at 5:30 am, by Hayley Day
“FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska” is a regular column on the San Juan Update. By Steve Ulvi, San Juan Island Just how much difference can a few bunnies make? Common notions when hearing of the place called Alaska, are a mish-mash of life experiences (or lack thereof), bookish knowledge and an active imagination. That Continue Reading
Freezer Burned: The Ides of October
Written on November 6, 2020 at 5:30 am, by Hayley Day
“FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska” is a regular column on the San Juan Update. By Steve Ulvi, San Juan Island Ducking through the plank door, coffee thermos dangling in hand, I paused to take in the sky while stretching my sore back and shoulders. Breathing deeply, I was invigorated by the brisk 55 degrees Continue Reading
Freezer Burned: No Matter What
Written on October 11, 2020 at 4:30 am, by Hayley Day
“FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska” is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi. The aging sow grizzly burned with an incessant urge to gorge on calories as her 10th winter hibernation neared. To provide for herself and both cubs through another denning, required an ongoing smorgasbord of nutrient-rich food Continue Reading
Breaking the Surly Bonds of Earth
Written on September 27, 2020 at 3:19 pm, by Tim Dustrude
FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi… Arriving in Interior Alaska in 1974, I was 23 years old and had never been in any kind of airplane. (Well alright, full disclosure; as a kid, I was big on those horses and planes that Continue Reading
The Wild Charley River (part II)
Written on September 14, 2020 at 9:33 am, by Tim Dustrude
FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi… (Author’s note: This campfire story is mostly fiction in terms of characters and events. Historic, ecological and political themes will always be sculpted factually. The wonders of the subarctic natural world are as I understand them Continue Reading
The Wild Charley River (part I)
Written on August 20, 2020 at 2:14 pm, by Peggy Sue McRae
FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi… The plane lifted off the state runway in Eagle on dense morning air on another bluebird July day. The drowsy sprawl of town and sweep of the Yukon River receded under the right wing as we climbed Continue Reading
Coming into the Country
Written on August 10, 2020 at 5:05 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
Click to enlarge photo. FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi… During the summers of the 1970s, a trickle of newcomers of disparate backgrounds, wheeled into the timeworn town of Eagle, Alaska. Less than twenty years prior, a seasonal road had been blasted Continue Reading
The Kings of the Yukon River
Written on July 19, 2020 at 5:33 am, by Tim Dustrude
FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi… The days of subarctic summer blend together and can unsettle internal rhythms. This is both a blessing and a curse, in having so many outdoor activities and a greatly expanded opportunity to overdo it. The reality Continue Reading
The Odds are Good, But the Goods are Odd
Written on June 24, 2020 at 9:04 am, by Tim Dustrude
FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi… In case you have never heard this pithy phrase describing a single woman’s chances of meeting Mr. Normal in Alaska, I did not come up with it. Some form of this lament surely has echoed everywhere Continue Reading
Surface Water in a Subarctic Desert
Written on June 10, 2020 at 6:16 am, by Tim Dustrude
FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska is a new regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi… Nearly every molecule of water that now covers 70% of our planet was spewed in awesome volcanic eruptions or carried frozen in asteroids or comets that pummeled a lifeless earth for eons. Any given water Continue Reading
Spring Black Bears on the Yukon River
Written on May 26, 2020 at 8:14 am, by Tim Dustrude
FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska is a new regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi… After gritting through another sub-arctic winter, there was celebratory pleasure in first plying the roiling, wood-strewn waters of the Yukon River in spring. The boat season followed seven to ten days of heavy running ice. Continue Reading
Neither Here, Nor There
Written on May 11, 2020 at 1:27 pm, by Tim Dustrude
This is the first in a series of stories by Steve Ulvi… We can all use a bit more entertainment these days. Begin by conjuring up the Far North. Way up, where invisible longitudinal lines get closer, just short of an invisible Arctic Circle. Nearly all of these campfire tales take place in a particular Continue Reading
Freezer Burned: Tales of Interior Alaska
Written on January 2, 2021 at 5:30 am, by Hayley Day
“Freezer Burned: Tales of Interior Alaska” is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi. Cold Weather and Fuzzy Thinking Whenever I look into the rearview mirror of my life gone by in Alaska; feeling nostalgic, needing a laugh and reality check, I call up Archie. But like pickled herring piled Continue Reading
Freezer Burned: Tales of Interior Alaska
Written on December 20, 2020 at 5:30 am, by Hayley Day
“Freezer Burned: Tales of Interior Alaska” is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi. The Mail Will Be Delivered: Part I On a dazzling autumn day, sometime in the mid-1930s, Eddie Hindermann tipped his hat back pausing in his labors, leaning on a shovel, catching a blow. He squinted while Continue Reading
Freezer Burned: Snowshoe Hares
Written on December 4, 2020 at 5:30 am, by Hayley Day
“FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska” is a regular column on the San Juan Update. By Steve Ulvi, San Juan Island Just how much difference can a few bunnies make? Common notions when hearing of the place called Alaska, are a mish-mash of life experiences (or lack thereof), bookish knowledge and an active imagination. That Continue Reading
Freezer Burned: The Ides of October
Written on November 6, 2020 at 5:30 am, by Hayley Day
“FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska” is a regular column on the San Juan Update. By Steve Ulvi, San Juan Island Ducking through the plank door, coffee thermos dangling in hand, I paused to take in the sky while stretching my sore back and shoulders. Breathing deeply, I was invigorated by the brisk 55 degrees Continue Reading
Freezer Burned: No Matter What
Written on October 11, 2020 at 4:30 am, by Hayley Day
“FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska” is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi. The aging sow grizzly burned with an incessant urge to gorge on calories as her 10th winter hibernation neared. To provide for herself and both cubs through another denning, required an ongoing smorgasbord of nutrient-rich food Continue Reading
Breaking the Surly Bonds of Earth
Written on September 27, 2020 at 3:19 pm, by Tim Dustrude
FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi… Arriving in Interior Alaska in 1974, I was 23 years old and had never been in any kind of airplane. (Well alright, full disclosure; as a kid, I was big on those horses and planes that Continue Reading
The Wild Charley River (part II)
Written on September 14, 2020 at 9:33 am, by Tim Dustrude
FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi… (Author’s note: This campfire story is mostly fiction in terms of characters and events. Historic, ecological and political themes will always be sculpted factually. The wonders of the subarctic natural world are as I understand them Continue Reading
The Wild Charley River (part I)
Written on August 20, 2020 at 2:14 pm, by Peggy Sue McRae
FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi… The plane lifted off the state runway in Eagle on dense morning air on another bluebird July day. The drowsy sprawl of town and sweep of the Yukon River receded under the right wing as we climbed Continue Reading
Coming into the Country
Written on August 10, 2020 at 5:05 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
Click to enlarge photo. FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi… During the summers of the 1970s, a trickle of newcomers of disparate backgrounds, wheeled into the timeworn town of Eagle, Alaska. Less than twenty years prior, a seasonal road had been blasted Continue Reading
The Kings of the Yukon River
Written on July 19, 2020 at 5:33 am, by Tim Dustrude
FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi… The days of subarctic summer blend together and can unsettle internal rhythms. This is both a blessing and a curse, in having so many outdoor activities and a greatly expanded opportunity to overdo it. The reality Continue Reading
The Odds are Good, But the Goods are Odd
Written on June 24, 2020 at 9:04 am, by Tim Dustrude
FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska is a regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi… In case you have never heard this pithy phrase describing a single woman’s chances of meeting Mr. Normal in Alaska, I did not come up with it. Some form of this lament surely has echoed everywhere Continue Reading
Surface Water in a Subarctic Desert
Written on June 10, 2020 at 6:16 am, by Tim Dustrude
FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska is a new regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi… Nearly every molecule of water that now covers 70% of our planet was spewed in awesome volcanic eruptions or carried frozen in asteroids or comets that pummeled a lifeless earth for eons. Any given water Continue Reading
Spring Black Bears on the Yukon River
Written on May 26, 2020 at 8:14 am, by Tim Dustrude
FREEZER BURNED: Tales of Interior Alaska is a new regular column on the San Juan Update written by Steve Ulvi… After gritting through another sub-arctic winter, there was celebratory pleasure in first plying the roiling, wood-strewn waters of the Yukon River in spring. The boat season followed seven to ten days of heavy running ice. Continue Reading
Neither Here, Nor There
Written on May 11, 2020 at 1:27 pm, by Tim Dustrude
This is the first in a series of stories by Steve Ulvi… We can all use a bit more entertainment these days. Begin by conjuring up the Far North. Way up, where invisible longitudinal lines get closer, just short of an invisible Arctic Circle. Nearly all of these campfire tales take place in a particular Continue Reading