Within a vast bowl bordered by blue hills, I rolled along on a trail scratched into ice by snowmachines. That deceptive basin ...

Minto Flats spills out in frozen lakes and rivers just beyond the village of Minto during sunrise on March 23. (Photo by ...

That deceptive basin — Minto Flats — is big enough to swallow ... Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation ...