Just a little more than two weeks are left to buy tickets for the greatest guessing game in Alaska ... Nenana Ice Classic. The traditional black-and-white tripod is sitting on the Tanana River ...

From there it led about 50 miles to Nenana, then through frozen swamps and overwooded portages to Tolovana Roadhouse. This place, 100 yards east of where the Tolovana River in summer dumps its ...