Fat Bikes, Snow Trails & Nome: Alaska Adventure

0:00It's March 28th. Welcome in. This is Anchorage News Today, where local news meets AI. Two adventurers, Ned Rosell and Forest Wagner are peddling fat bikes across interior Alaska snow trails, aiming for gnome. They kicked off from Fairbanks last Saturday and minus 12 degrees Fahrenheit weather, covering 145 miles over 5 days to reach. Manly hot springs. The rat winds do quiet spruce hills and tamarax swamps with vast open spaces between villages. They follow groomed paths along the half mile wide Tanana River under blue skies that warm things up to 8 degrees Fahrenheit, finally escaping. Months of deep snow and bitter cold. Locals and friends have stepped up big time with support. Ned's wife and a pal surprised them in Nanana, with burgers and fries after a grueling day on soft snow. Like Steve O'Brien hosting them with French toast and bacon, plus more trail angels, have kept their spirits and stomachs full.

1:00Right now in Manly, they're waiting on laundry while planting showers, embracing that simple just-add water trail life of eating hearty and pushing. Pedals. Plenty more kind folks await as they inch westward. You can track their progress on Ned's satellite device, watching that arrow creep toward gnome on the map.