Chugach Mountains
Mountain range in AlaskaWikipedia
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Oct 20, 2026
Sean SpruceHOST
This is Native America Calling.
Sean SpruceHOST
I'm Sean Spruce hosting today's show live from Anchorage, Alaska, where the sun is just starting to rise over the breathtakingly beautiful Chugach Mountain Range to the east.
Sean SpruceHOST
Coyocon Athabascan elder Amal Naughty, 93 years of age, is attending a gathering of the largest Alaska Native advocacy organization, one he helped found 60 years ago.
Sean SpruceHOST
Naughty has overseen many pivotal changes to Alaska Native lands and rights, working to ensure they weren't stripped away by the federal government.
Matt FargoGUEST
love heli-skiing.
Matt FargoGUEST
But eventually I was a mountain guide for the Boy Scouts in their high adventure parade in the Chugach Range up in Alaska, which is one of the places I like to go heli-skiing as well.
Matt FargoGUEST
And so kind of in those formative years, you kind of – learn different entrepreneurial traits.
Matt FargoGUEST
And so, you know, going a little further forward into college, you know, going to the University of Colorado.
Josh HallmarkHOST
And then there's Keyes' grand plan, where he talked about shooting out people's tires and then abducting them from their cars while he was staking out Chugach State Park in Alaska.
Josh HallmarkHOST
Actually, his description of the location of this double homicide is eerily similar to how he described the Chugach Mountains.
Josh HallmarkHOST
When he was killing this couple, he could hear cars passing on the highway below.
Josh HallmarkHOST
And in the Chugach Mountains, he could see cars passing on the highway below.
Josh HallmarkHOST
He'd wait for a lone car, shoot out its tires, and have the driver at gunpoint before they even knew what had happened.
Josh HallmarkHOST
And we've discussed plenty of cases where a car appeared to have driven off a mountain, but there was never any sign of the driver and no apparent blood at the scene, including Gary Sean Bryant, Thomas Hedgecock, and Kenneth Adrian Greth.
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Josh HallmarkHOST
But the FBI investigated this, and they found no evidence that it actually happened.
Josh HallmarkHOST
Both men were interviewed, and neither man was ever charged.
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It stretches from the Alaska Range in the north to the Talkeetna Mountains in the east, and the rolling hills of the western interior, an area roughly the size of West Virginia with a population that could fit in a mid-sized high school gymnasium.
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To the southeast, the Chugach Mountains form another wall of ice and rock, younger and more compressed than the Alaska Range, pushed up by the same tectonic forces, but closer to the coast, so they catch the moisture-laden air coming off the Gulf of Alaska and convert it into staggering amounts of snow.
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The Thompson Pass area near Valdez holds the Alaska record for snowfall in a single season, eighty-one feet in the winter of 1952 to 1953.
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That is not a typo.
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Now draw a line.
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Draw it from Juneau, the state capital, perched on a narrow strip of land between the Gastineau Channel and the steep mountains of the Coast Range, accessible by road from nowhere, reachable only by air or sea.
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Draw another line from Juneau northwest to Anchorage, the largest city in the state, home to roughly 40% of Alaska's total population, sprawled across a coastal plain between the Chugach Mountains and Cook Inlet.
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Draw a third line from Anchorage north to Utqiagvik, the city formerly known as Barrow.
Sean EvangelistaGUEST
Two weeks into that course, we were just sitting on the Chugach Glacier.
Sean EvangelistaGUEST
We're up there in the Chugach Mountain Range, kind of south of the Alaska Range where Denali is, where most people know where Denali is.
Sean EvangelistaGUEST
We were south of that.
Sean EvangelistaGUEST
And so...
Jeff VenusAUDIENCE
That's huge.
Jeff VenusAUDIENCE
That's the Chugach Range all the way to West Anchorage, south toward,
Diane McEachernHOST
you
Jeff VenusAUDIENCE
know, Rabbit Creek and north up past the military bases.
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