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

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

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 ...