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Slush cup at Alyeska

The Alyeska Resort Spring Carnival Slush Cup on Saturday, April 21, 2012.

Spring enthusiasts enjoy Alyeska Resort Spring Carnival Slush Cup on Saturday, April 21, 2012.

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UAA alpine racing

UAA's Anias Urbain rounds a gate on the giant slalom course. UAA hosted giant slalom racing at Alyeska Resort in Girdwood as part of the UAA Invitational ski meet on Wednesday, February 8, 2012.

UAA hosted giant slalom racing at Alyeska Resort in Girdwood as part of the UAA Invitational ski meet on Wednesday, February 8, 2012.

Arctic Valley

Merry Marmot spring festival at Arctic Valley ski area.

Arctic Valley

Arctic Valley ski hill on Saturday February 5, 2011.

Sled Dog Race

Sled Dogs at Tozier Track

Fast and Female

Empowering girls through cross country skiing.

Skiing photos

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NANANordic

Skate skiing on the old airstrip in Noorvik. Blue sky and hard snow made for great skate skiing.

NANANordic sent ski coaches to villages in the NANA Corporation area of north western Alaska to teach more ski skills to school kids.

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Tour

From left, Erik Mundahl, Rob Whitney, Trond Flagstad, Erik Flora and Cody Priest ski the 50-kilometer freestyle event. Racers head down the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail in Anchorage, Alaska, during the Tour of Anchorage on Sunday, March 4, 2012. The Tour of Anchorage consists of 25, 40 and 50-kilometer cross country ski races in classical and skate styles.

Skiers in the 2012 Tour of Anchorage were treated to blue skies and sunshine.

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Ski

Service's Forest Tarbath prepares for another climb out of the Kincaid stadium Saturday.

The state championship ski relay races were at Kincaid Park, Saturday February 25, 2012.

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The American Birkebeiner

Holly Brooks of Anchorage, won the women's American Birkebeiner cross country ski race in Cable, Wis., on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012. The race is 51 km long, and ends in Hayward, Wis.

Cook Inlet skiing

Service's Taylor Turney skis around the south end of the Kincaid stadium. High school cross country skiers competed in 4.3-kilometer classic relay races at the Cook Inlet Conference Championships on Saturday, February 18, 2012, at Kincaid Park.

High school cross country skiers competed in 4.3-kilometer classic relay races at the Cook Inlet Conference Championships on Saturday, February 18, 2012, at Kincaid Park.

UAA Invitational 15-kilometer classic

Eliska Hajkova of Colorado leads the field around a turn en route to winning the women's 15-kilometer classical race at the Seawolf Invitational Friday morning Feb. 10, 2012 at Kincaid Park.

Eliska Hajkova of Colorado outlasts Jaime Bronga of host University of Alaska Anchorage by four tenths of a second in the women's 15-kilometer classical race at the Seawolf Invitational Friday morning Feb. 10, 2012 at Kincaid Park.

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UAA alpine racing

UAA hosted giant slalom racing at Alyeska Resort in Girdwood as part of the UAA Invitational ski meet on Wednesday, February 8, 2012.

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Biathlon

Ben Greenwald of Maine Winter Sports Center fires from the standing postion. Thirty-six athletes competed in the first day of competition at the 2011 US World Youth/Junior Biathlon Championships at Kincaid Park on Wednesday, December 28, 2011.

Thirty-six athletes competed in the first day of competition at the 2011 US World Youth/Junior Biathlon Championships at Kincaid Park on Wednesday, December 28, 2011.

US World Youth/Junior Biathlon Championships Practice

Andrea Mayo of Maine and the Biathlon Alberta Training Centre prepares to take aim while practicing for the 2011 US World Youth/Junior Biathlon Championships Tuesday December 27, 2011 at Kincaid Park in Anchorage, Alaska. Races will be held Wednesday through Friday.

Biathletes practice for the 2011 US World Youth/Junior Biathlon Championships Tuesday December 27, 2011 at Kincaid Park.

Ski Relay

Patrick Stinson and Ed Wise and the rest of the first leg of the cross country relay race in a mass start on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at Kincaid Park.

The UAA/AMH Friends and Family Homecoming ski relay.

Reader-submitted

Alaska cabins

Share photos of what you love most about your cabin; bonus for any outhouses that make it into your submissions.

Post your cabin photo

Reader-submitted: 2012 Bicycling

Location: Anchorage, 04/18/2011 Three-wheeling Bud!

Share photos of your races, rides, tricks or even your favorite bike.

Share your biking photos

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Alaska birds

Alaska is home to hundreds of different migrating bird species and readers have posted hundreds of their bird-watching finds. Share your photos.

RSVP: May 2012

Location: Bagram, Afghanistan, 05/01/2012 CW2 Clinton K. Brown III of the Alaska Army National Guard with President Obama 1 May 2012 in Bagram, Afghanistan

Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in May, 2012.

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Reader-submitted: Alaska Gardens 2012

Location: 05/21/2012, Indian The beginning of summer!

Alaska-themed Tattoos

Reader submitted: Mom and me

Reader submitted: Alaska dogs

Reader-submitted: 2012 High School Grad

Alaska Spring 2012:Reader-submitted

Snowmachines

2012 Bear sightings: Reader-submitted

Reader submitted: 2012 Aurora Borealis

RSVP: April 2012

RSVP March 2012

Reader submitted: 2012 Iditarod

Reader submitted: Fur Rondy 2012

Moose sightings

Reader-submitted: 2012 UAA Grad

2011/12 Alaska winter

RSVP: February 2012

RSVP: January - 2012

Cordova snowstorm

January Valdez snowstorm

Frosty Alaskans

Slideshows

Alaska-based soldiers headed for Afghanistan

Brigade commander Col. Morris Goins addresses his troops and guests at a U.S. Army Alaska deployment ceremony for the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division Tuesday morning November 29, 2011 at Sullivan Arena. The 3,500-soldier brigade will be departing for Afghanistan on a series of flights in November and December.

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Food Bank of Alaska Thanksgiving Blessing

The Food Bank of Alaska Thanksgiving Blessing project is a community-wide effort to provide turkeys and all the fixings to everyone in need on one day, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011, from seven locations and is expected to provide enough food to feed around 7,000 families.

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Southcentral Power Project

Project manager Dustin Highers discusses the Southcentral Power Project located at the Chugach Electric Association headquarters off International Airport Road in Anchorage.

Touring the Goose Creek Correctional Center

Corrections commissioner Joe Schmidt describes the new Goose Creek Correctional Center slated to begin accepting prisoners in March of 2012 at Point MacKenzie.

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Operation Bulldog Bite