Monthly Archives: January 2023

11 January 2023

Hockeyland

By icefogger

Friday Night Lights on ice:

I recently saw the documentary, Hockeytown. This very raw film, follows two high school hockey teams in Northern Minnesota during the 2019-2020 season. Two rivals on very separate paths: Eveleth is the iconic Iron Range town, home of the U.S Hockey Hall of Fame. Both the town and the hockey team are long past their prime years. Hermantown is on the rise, gaining both population and championships.

All the pressure, pride, excitement and disappointment in playing Minnesota’s state sport at the high school level is laid out bare in this very well done documentary.

Texas has football; Indiana has basketball; Minnesota has hockey.

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9 January 2023

We call this mild:

By icefogger
Graphic credit: NWS – Fairbanks

The forecast calls for another week of mild temperatures across Alaska’s Interior.

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2 January 2023

New Glacier

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A new glacier documented in the Shublik Mountains; Photo courtesy of Caltopo

A wilderness guide, Zachary Sheldon, came across a glacier in the Shublik Mountains in northern Alaska. Just thirty miles from the Arctic Coast and ten miles northeast of Alaska’s Brooks Range, it is the northernmost glacier in the United States.

Glaciers this far north are much different than glaciers on our southern coast. There isn’t much snow accumulating this far north, and the elevation of this glacier isn’t as high as others, as it sits at 4500 feet.

Like 99% of glaciers in Alaska, this newly discovered one is not growing in size.

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