Excursion Inlet viewed from the air. (Courtesy L'Aquatique, wikimedia commons)
Excursion Inlet viewed from the air. (Courtesy L’Aquatique, Wikimedia commons)

It’s a somewhat convoluted process for the 12 year-round residents of Excursion Inlet to get their mail. 

Right now, the mail comes in through Juneau’s post office which holds it until delivery day. Then it’s picked up and flown to the community where Kristen Zarlengo grabs it from the pilot, then sorts it into stacks of packages and first class mail in a makeshift…

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...