Many of you ask me how we put up with the harsh and lightless winters back home. You liken Alaskans to the pioneers of the Old West - hardy, full of endurance and grit. You picture us in -45 degree temps - bundled in layers of furs, snowshoed/bunny booted, beard adorned....icicles hanging from those same beards/nose hairs frozen - and when we speak it is garbled - unintelligible for aren't we crazy with the cabin fever? Oh, naive outsider, this is not the case! See photo above.