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Indie Alaska
I am a Volunteer Ski Bum
Season 1
Episode 6
Arctic Valley has been providing Alaskans with grassroots skiing since the 1940s. Sitting next to an old military missile site, the ski area relies almost entirely on its volunteers to stay alive.
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4:40
After winning Food Network's "Cupcake Wars," Kastle Sorensen improves Alaska's cupcakes
3:45
Johnny B. travels throughout Alaska by bush plane to play boogie-woogie piano music
6:02
Ionia is remote, and sometimes misunderstood intentional community located outside Kasilof
4:58
Year-round, Mako Haggerty takes his boat out across Katchemak Bay as a service to Homer.
4:36
Kendo Shine bought a small trailer and started cooking Kendo-style food in Anchorage.
7:03
Bernie Karl is an entrepreneur, an innovator, and an Alaskan original.
5:07
Winterlake Lodge on Finger Lake is an official Iditarod Trail checkpoint.
3:53
Russell Biggs is an Anesthesiologist and a bandmate by night.
4:23
Bettie Upright is a bowler. She picked up the game nearly 30 years ago, at the age of 70.
5:14
Cliff and Ivy have been performing as a goth band for over 30 years.
3:47
Reyne Athanas runs the Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center in Bethel, Alaska.