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Winter fun in Fairbanks

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For a serious outhouse fix, try Chatanika Days in early March. In an annual outhouse race near Chatanika Lodge, teams of five propel outhouses over a one-mile course.

March is also when ice sculptors from around the world gather in Fairbanks for Ice Alaska world ice-carving championships. A carver from Los Angeles (where huge ice centerpieces are popular at tony parties) compared ice from around Fairbanks with diamonds, it is so pure. Once the carvings are completed, organizers shine multicolored lights on them for nighttime viewing. The festival is interactive, too, so visitors as well as sculptors get the fun of experiencing the ice. A wall might be set up for local ice climbers to swing their axes and crampons into, and anyone can take a whirl down an ice slide.

(Reporter Sarana Schell lives in Anchorage. She was born and raised in Fairbanks.)

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