Some 43 hearty walkers, runners and bike riders participated in the Chilkat River Walk Saturday. A few participants had family members ferry them dry clothes and most made an abbreviated version of the annual 23-mile trek between Klukwan and Haines. About six went the whole distance.
“I was amazed. I couldn’t believe it when I counted (participants) all up. It was horrible out there,” said Pam Sloper, a Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium employee who…