Mushrooms are mysterious. They hide in dark forest corners, and give off an air of danger. The Girdwood Fungus Fair (this weekend August 27-29) is your chance to learn the lure of the fungus variety – through forays, workshops and best of all, tasting of this beguiling species. This year’s featured speakers include Dr. Matt TRappe, trufflemaster [...]

Yoga is a fun and effective way to shake up your workout routine and challenge your body and mind in new ways that will produce better results than one could ever expect. As you build a stronger body, yoga will also improve upon flexibility, stamina and reduce stress.  Join us for this playful and invigorating [...]

So the debate goes . . . is all this rain better for blueberry-picking season or not? The jury is out as some expert pickers are claiming there are indeed more fruit to be harvested while others are seeing plumper berries in lesser quantities. The answer is, of course, find out for yourself.! The 4th [...]

It’s easy to imagine the Punch Brothers as a rock band. I mean, what’s rock and who cares, but I’m talking about materials: electric guitars and digital distortion and drums, rather than the untreated sounds of mandolin, fiddle, banjo, acoustic guitar and double bass.
In rock, though, the last refinement is feigning indifference, and it’s not [...]

Alyeska crews have completed a 9 target disc golf course laid out in the vicinity of the Hotel Alyeska. This is a wide open big-mountain alpine disc golf course with tee to target distances ranging from 300 to 360 feet. The course begins behind the base of Chair 7 (by that HUGE cottonwood), goes out [...]

Alyeska is getting ramped up for the first annual Fiddlehead Folk Festival! Come help us make this a great success so that we can keep up great folk, country and bluegrass alive and kickin’ in Southcentral. The grounds are looking great, fingers are crossed for some decent weather. The Greencards and Great American Taxi arrive tomorrow, and [...]

 Coach Tim Durtschi recaps Day One of Alyeska Summer Camp:
Camp is looking real good up here at Alyeska Resort. On our first day we skied around and helped out the diggers with ideas on how the park should be set up. There are currently 3 rail gardens, 2 jump lines and a half pipe. Read more>

Great American Taxi decided that on their way from Telluride and on their way to the High Sierra Music Festival, that a stop in Alaska was a must. They are bringing to Southcentral a taste of their uninhibited sound, something they call “Americana” – a swinging concoction of swampy blues, progressive bluegrass, funky New Orleans strut, Southern [...]

One sure sign of summer at Alyeska is the rainbow of floral color in the hotel’s beautiful Pond Courtyard. Master Gardener Robbie Frankevich has a passion for flora as well as a very skilled green thumb. This weekend showcases his first round of flowers in bloom which will be at its peak. Robbie also holds [...]

The Eric McFadden Trio isn’t for the faint-hearted. They work hard, play harder and the result is down-to-earth, unforgiving rock music.
“A meeting of the devils and angels defines EMT’s sound. At times, their sound mimics elements of Tom Waits’ dreamy, sordid underworld with a harder edge, and at others even approaches a Motorhead heaviness. The all-acoustic [...]