GCI Continues Support for 61st Annual Beaver Round-Up
For everything from basketball and outhouse races to movie nights and cook-offs, hundreds of Southwest Alaska residents are gathering in Dillingham this week for the 61st Annual Beaver Round-Up.
One lucky winner at GCI’s Halftime Show Airplane Toss will receive an Apple Watch, courtesy of GCI, during the Old Timer’s Basketball Games on March 22.
“GCI is proud to support such a long-standing community tradition that brings people together from across Southwest Alaska,” said GCI Vice President of Corporate Communications Heather Handyside.
Beaver Round-Up kicks off March 20th and runs through March 24th.
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In mid-May it was 19°F and windy at the Aurora Hotel in Deadhorse. As I stood in the parking lot surveying the surroundings, I chatted with a gentleman from Texas who works for Nabors Alaska Drilling and was in town as part of a crew tasked with getting a previously inactive drill rig up and running. He said that, according to his supervisor, spring is the windy season on the North Slope. The gusts were bracing, numbing the fingers holding my camera, but most of my attention was focused on what I could capture through the lens: work trucks, shipping containers, buildings obscured by snow whipped up by the wind.