A group of visitors runs a guerrilla 5k before Beerfest on Saturday, May 25, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
A group of visitors runs a guerrilla 5k before Beerfest on Saturday, May 25, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

A handful of people drawn to Haines for Beerfest kicked off their Saturday by hosting an informal 5-kilometer run through town. 

In years past, hundreds of runners turned out for the Slammin’ Salmon 5K and 10K as part of the weekend’s festivities – but that tradition fell by the wayside during the COVID-19…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...