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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.

Not a morsel of saltiness remains at Tutka Bay Lodge, not even an old salmon net hanging from a hook.

Photographer Annie Schlechter

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Rustic Indulgence

I have 30 minutes before midmorning yoga, so I walk the premises. The lodge owners opened Tutka Bay after a major remodel of what was formerly more like a good ole fish camp, the kind I’ve been told to avoid on this assignment. Not a morsel of saltiness remains, not even an old salmon net hanging from a hook.