Alaska lawmakers approved $3.7 million in funding for nine projects that are part of an integrated trail system that proponents hope will rival the Appalachian Trail on the East Coast and the Pacific Crest Trail on the West Coast.
The biggest project approved would put just over $1 million toward creating a 25-mile connection between Turnagain Arm and the northern area of Anchorage.
Beyond the Big Bend and across terrain above about 6,000 feet in Glacier, winter has persisted even to June — a normal phenomenon despite the uncommon lack of lower-elevation snow.
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