Juneau has little arable land, a short growing season and few farmers – and deep traditions of residents and the land feeding each other Forty miles north-west of Alaska’s capital, the highway just ends. At Glacier Highway’s most northern point, the pavement turns to gravel, the gravel widens into a turnaround and the tire tracks curve back the way they came. At the far end, the woods begin, a narrow hiking trail slipping toward the southern end of Berners Bay.
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