• Hotsprings KML

  A kml file with locations and temperatures of all the hot springs on the NDGC list of offical hotsprings. Hopefully useful for planning trips… Here is the link .

• Arctic Hotsprings Paper

  An interesting paper on hot springs from the 1970s.

• National Weather Service’s Stream Guages

  The main NWS stream gauge page seems to be: http://aprfc.arh.noaa.gov/.

  Here is a list of the gauges in the greater fairbanks area:
  

  
  
  • Chatanika River at Steese Hwy Bridge
  
  
  • Chatanika River at Elliot Hwy Bridge
  
  
  • Chena River at Mile 40 Bridge
  
  
  • I am not sure where this one is – its not 40 mile CHSR
  
  
  • Nome Creek
  
  
  • 4ft is a good range for floating Nome Creek from the Ophir Creek Campground in a packraft.

• BLM White Mountains NRA

  The trail conditions for the BLM’s White Mountains NRA can be found here. Its updated semi randomly in the winter and once or twice in the summer.

• BLM White Mountains NRA Trails

  The White Mountain’s website used to have information on trails, but its pretty much gone now – the best site is currently GORPs. This stuff was lifted from BLM’s site in the distant past I think.

• Chena State Rec Area Trails

  Information on the trails in the Chena River State Rec Area can be found here.

  Direct links to the trail info:
  

  
  
  • Angel Rocks
  
  
  • Angel Rocks to Chena Hotsprings
  
  
  • Chena Dome
  
  
  • Compeau’s
  
  
  • Granite Tors

• Bike Related Stuff

  • Akspokes Mainly Anchorage folks.
  • Fairbanks Cycle Clubs Forums

• Snow Travelers

  Local Fairbanks snowmachine club. Website and forum.

• Alaska Outdoor Forums

  Occasionally useful for finding out trail conditions, but mostly hunting related. Here.

• Alpacka Forum

  The Alpacka folks have a really active forum that is quite useful – lots of trip info, gear discussion, and other general pack rafting information. Here.

I am a bit of a blog addict these days – I love to mine blogs for trip suggestions and motivation.
Here’s the list:

• Packrafting Related Stuff
  
  
  
  • Ed Plumb’s Blog
  • Roman Dial, King of Packrafting
  • Epic Eric
  • Kellie’s blog Interesting packrafting trips
  • jtlindholm’s site not a blog, but interesting packrafting trip ideas



• Bike Related Stuff
  
  
  
  • Mike C – photos are amazing
  
  
  • Lazy Ranonneur – Bike touring guy



• Random Stuff
  
  
  
  • Ned Rozell’s Blog
  
  
  • Endure Fun skiing and packrafting info



• Skiing Related
  
  
  
  • Tim Kelleys Skiing Supersite Not a blog, but close. Lots of anchorage skiing info.
  
  
  • Goldsteam Sports Wax info, though mostly for racing. Sometimes other stuff.

A small collection of weather related sites

• Snow
  
  
  
  • Snow depths for the greater fairbanks area.



• Weather Forcasts
  
  
  
  • Fairbanks
  
  
  • Livengood/Fort Yukon
  
  
  • East of CHS



• Snotel Stuff
  
  
  
  • Upper Nome Creek useful for White Mountains trip planning
  
  
  • Chena Pillow Useful for CRSRA trips



• Web cams, with weather information
  
  
  
  • Cleary Summit



• Other stuff
  
  
  
  • Wundergrounds’s interactive weather map