In Alaska’s capital, food comes by water, air or, most often, community sharing

Forty miles northwest of Alaska’s capital, the highway just ends.

At Glacier Highway’s most northern point, the pavement turns to gravel, the gravel widens into a turnaround and the tire tracks curve back the way they came. At the far end, the woods begin, a narrow hiking trail slipping toward the southern end of Berners Bay.

Locals call this stretch “out the road”. It is the only road that reaches Juneau, population 35,000, and that means virtually everything arriving in Alaska’s capital comes by water or air…(Read full story)