Outdoors

Race officials have begun tracing who Johnson may have had close contact with over the last 300 miles of trail and multiple checkpoints.

Gunnar Johnson of Minnesota tested positive for COVID-19 at the checkpoint in McGrath, near race mile 310, more than a third of the way into the Iditarod.

The stranded eagle was euthanized after it was determined that it had been starving and its injuries prevented it from hunting or catching food.

Last year’s climbing season was canceled due to COVID-19. Now climbing is returning, along with its boost to businesses in the Northern Susitna Valley. 

Giant steel structures divert avalanches away from transmission line towers while the Daisy Bell device is used to trigger small slides before they become big ones.

Bears tend to build their dens at an elevation of about 2,000 to 3,000 feet, usually where the angle of the slope is around 35 to 45 degrees.