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Alaska’s Softer Side

Avid adventure traveler David Hanson sets out to discover coastal Alaska’s less rugged, more indulgent attributes: hot-stone massages, gourmet food, leather-bound wine lists, and complimentary bathrobes.

Mike and I take an early morning beach walk. A bank of fog rolls over us like an empty tidal wave.

Photographer Annie Schlechter

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Nature Walk

I spend two days here, and it’s so comfortable and authentic that it feels like a visit to my fictitious, eccentric aunt and uncle’s house. Mike and I take an early morning beach walk. A bank of fog rolls over us like an empty tidal wave. For now, I live vicariously through his adventure stories, banking them in the to-do catalog.