Ned’s latest book is “Summer of Gravel and Steel: a Thru Hike of Alaska, 20 years After the First.” 

Ned Rozell has walked, skied, driven, and flown across Alaska, and he’s lived there more than half his life. He’s written more than 2,000 weekly newspaper columns about natural history and science, and has written 80 more for Alaska Magazine. He has seven Alaska-related books and counting; Walking my Dog, Jane, is about that hike across Alaska with a dog that won’t come along again. His latest work is summer of gravel and steel; a thru-hike of Alaska, 20 years after the first.