Gable Sage finishes one of his 20 laps, Saturday, March 22, 2025 (Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News).

As far as sports arenas go, Chilkat Lake is hard to beat. Saturday’s Chilkat Snowburners’ Chilkat 100 carved through an untouched track marked on the lake’s frozen surface, in a natural bowl with 4,000 foot peaks for a back wall. The only thing missing from the usual was a parking lot: with the only way into the lake in…

Will Steinfeld is a documentary photographer and reporter in Southeast Alaska, formerly in New England.