The Week Ahead: An uphill challenge

The organizers of Arctic Man hope that more machines will be what it takes to make Alaska’s counter-cultural winter sporting event great again.

By Kevin McGwin April 9, 2018
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Ask the 13,000 people who show up for Arctic Man what the annual gathering in the Hoodoo Mountains, near Paxson, Alaska, is, and you will get 13,001 answers. Regardless of why else people show up, the main draw of Arctic Man since it was founded, in 1986, has been the Arctic Man Race, a combined speed-skiing event and snowmobile-pull (see video below).

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