Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian ... And certainly, they would wonder, what happened to that big lake south of town? In what is now Midtown Anchorage ...

“You know, you mush across the state of Alaska, you’ve got to be prepared ... “We are all rookies,” Big Lake musher Nicolas Petit said, joking about the novel route. Redington won in ...

Many a science-fiction story was birthed from ice, so it’s easy to be unsettled at photos from Alaska showing concentric ... skating with a friend atop Big Lake, about 60 miles north of Anchorage.