John Shook skis toward granite tors located near Serpentine Hot Springs on the Seward Peninsula. (Photo by Ned Rozell) In Alaska, water enters the cracks in tors and, when it freezes, shoves the ...

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 ...

Located in eastern Alaska, just across from Russia ... Amidst the rolling tundra is a scenic valley where granite tors rise out of the ground and tower 100 feet above the land, surrounding ...

FAIRBANKS - Alaska State Parks has closed the Granite Tors Trail in the Chena River State Recreation Area after another hikers versus bear encounter over the weekend. It’s the third such ...

Alaska was different ... The Interior now features monolithic granite tors (which glaciers would have sheared away) because of a combination of ice-age conditions, Mann said.

He photographed and surveyed the original trails as well as supervised construction by the Alaska Youth Conservation ... with a marker at the Granite Tors Campground Kiosk at 39 Mile Chena Hot ...