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2024 Arctic Winter Games Coming to Mat-Su
Facilities such as Skeetawk, the new alpine ski area located in Hatcher Pass, allowed the Mat-Su Bourough to successfully bid on hosting the Arctic Winter Games.
The Arctic Winter Games is coming to the Mat-Su Borough in 2024.
Home to the Iditarod Restart, the Irondog, the Iditasport, Iditarod Trail Invitational, the Su 50/100 and cross-country regional races, the Mat-Su Borough has become Southcentral’s destination for outdoor winter recreation and competition.
The Arctic Winter Games International Committee (AWGIC) made the big announcement of the Borough’s successful bid and wished the Borough success. “The Mat-Su Borough 2024 Arctic Winter Games bid was extremely professional and well received by the International Bid Review Committee,” says John Flynn, President of the AWGIC.
Avalanche debris will keep Hatcher Pass Road closed through the week, officials say Published 3 hours ago
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Print article Officials on Monday said it could take until the weekend for debris to be cleared from the Hatcher Pass Road area so that the road can reopen after a series of avalanches closed it on Easter. The five avalanches covered about a 2,400-foot stretch of the road with roughly 6 feet of debris.
Shannon McCarthy, a spokeswoman for the Alaska Department of Transportation, said there has not been an avalanche closure in the area this extreme since the 1980s. The road first closed on April 3 as avalanche danger heightened. On April 4, five natural avalanches were