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On Step Alaska

Jeff Lund, Abby Lund

Jeff Lund is a Ketchikan-based writer, teacher, and host of the On Step Alaska podcast. His column 'I Went to the Woods' appears in the Juneau Empire. He is the author of Big Wild Life and A Miserable Paradise.

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Words from Lund

Staff photo from a few years ago.

Buddy the elf once said “then I traveled through the seven levels of the Candy Cane Forest, past the sea of swirly, twirly gumdrops, and then, I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel!”

There’s almost no bette...

16 days ago
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Alaska gubernatorial candidates

Had a pair of great conversations with gubernatorial candidates Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins and Click Bishop. In both we talked about oil production, fisheries, financial issues, housing and the future of the state.

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22 days ago
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The firefighter who fished

I’d classify salmon and steelhead fishing in Alaska as epic. But trout fishing in Colorado is incredibly satisfying.

Tom was the type of guy who had a fly rod spreadsheet. Not because he was pretentious, a collector, or wanted to gloat—he...

a month ago
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Serious Back Issues

“Do you need that magazine?

“No, but I do want it.”
There was no accusatory tone in my wife’s question, but she was rightfully curious about why I was walking around the house looking for the Winter 2026 issue ofThe Drake Magazine one Sa...

2 months ago
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AI vulnerable

We don’t have a farm, but we do grow food and my daughter will absolutely be going to school.

My grandfather didn’t go to high school.
“You don’t need high school to be a farmer,” his father told him.

What was true is no longer true a...

2 months ago
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  • Jeff Lund

    Freelance writer and teacher in Ketchikan, Alaska. Author - A Miserable Paradise: Life in Southeast Alaska (2021), Big Wild Life (2025)

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    Outside with my family in Southeast Alaska

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