Today it’s just another mountain to most in Alaska and beyond — but not to us in Seward. It’s our mountain. It hovers behind us. It watches our back. The Fourth of July Mount Marathon Race is over and ...

I’ll admit it: I’ve been putting off this hike for months. I blamed the warm weather and told myself I didn’t have time for a six-hour trek, but the truth is that I knew El Cajon Mountain was going to ...