Heavy snow is a fact of life in the Great Lakes snowbelts and Mountain West. But on Jan. 16, 1990, 35 years ago, an Alaska town was clobbered by a series of snowstorms impressive even by local ...

In Alaska, the state with the highest ... In the century since, the Valdez has retreated so much it has revealed a freshwater lake more than 600 feet deep. On Anadyr Adventures’ Glacier Lake ...

View west to port Valdez, the glacial fiord that will be the Trans-Alaska pipeline terminus, with Robe lake in the foreground the Lowe river dumps its burden of silty rock flour into port Valdez ...