Granite tors are scattered on hilltops all over middle Alaska, from near Serpentine Hot Springs on the Seward Peninsula to the Chena River State Recreation Area outside Fairbanks, which features a ...

A mushroom-shaped granite tor about 60 miles from Fairbanks. (Photo by Ned Rozell) As I started hiking a ridgetop during the July 4th weekend, a friend told me to look for the mushroom rock ahead ...

Two bears continue to be a problem along a popular Fairbanks area hiking trail. One of the young grizzly siblings stalked a group of 3 hikers and their dog on the Granite Tors Trail in the Chena ...

This 1982 group photo shows the Twin Bears Alaska Youth Conservation Corps Camp Crew. ... Trail Construction Camp on the upper Granite Tors trail, 1982. Courtesy Steve Cook; ...