Fat Bikes, Snow Trails & Nome: Alaska Adventure

It's March 28th.

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This is Anchorage News Today, where local news meets AI.

Two adventurers, Ned Rosell and Forest Wagner are peddling fat bikes across interior Alaska

snow trails, aiming for gnome.

They kicked off from Fairbanks last Saturday and minus 12 degrees Fahrenheit weather, covering

145 miles over 5 days to reach.

Manly hot springs.

The rat winds do quiet spruce hills and tamarax swamps with vast open spaces between

villages.

They follow groomed paths along the half mile wide Tanana River under blue skies that

warm things up to 8 degrees Fahrenheit, finally escaping.

Months of deep snow and bitter cold.

Locals and friends have stepped up big time with support.

Ned's wife and a pal surprised them in Nanana, with burgers and fries after a grueling

day on soft snow.

Like Steve O'Brien hosting them with French toast and bacon, plus more trail angels, have

kept their spirits and stomachs full.

Right now in Manly, they're waiting on laundry while planting showers, embracing that simple

just-add water trail life of eating hearty and pushing.

Pedals.

Plenty more kind folks await as they inch westward.

You can track their progress on Ned's satellite device, watching that arrow creep toward

gnome on the map.