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View of the mountain from Seward. The men's race record time of 40:37 was set in 2024 by David Norris, beating the previous record set by himself in 2016 by 49 seconds. [27] The first female finisher of the race was Erma Jane Trigg age 18 in 1:37:08. She was a resident of the Jesse Lee Home in Seward.
Mount Marathon, or officially Marathon Mountain, is a 4,826-foot (1,471 m) mountain summit directly west of Seward in the Kenai Mountains in the U.S. state of Alaska.The peak is situated in Chugach National Forest, rising above Resurrection Bay, 2.35 mi (4 km) south of Mount Benson, and 2 mi (3 km) north of Bear Mountain.
Aerial view of Seward, Alaska, in the 1990s, looking north. The mouth of the Resurrection River and the base of Mount Marathon are visible. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 21.5 square miles (56 km 2), of which 14.4 square miles (37 km 2) is land and 7.1 square miles (18 km 2) (32.93%) is water.
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On July 9, 1927, the Balto Building was dedicated and the new flag was raised for the first time at the Jesse Lee Home. The date is still commemorated in the state as Alaska Flag Day. On July 4, 1928, another Chignik boy, Ephriam Kalmakoff, at 14 years old won Seward's Mount Marathon Race, a mountain foot race above Seward that stood until 1957 ...
Even by Alaska standards, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve is extraordinary. Gates of the Arctic has no trails, roads. That's partly why the park is so special.
Ostrander frequently competes in the Mount Marathon Race in Seward, Alaska, which she began running in grade school. She won the half-distance, junior version of the race six consecutive times from 2009 to 2014. [ 51 ]
Resurrection Bay, also known as Blying Sound, and Harding Gateway in its outer reaches, is a fjord on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, United States. Its main settlement is Seward, located at the head of the bay. The bay received its name from Alexandr Baranov, who was forced to retreat into the bay during a bad storm in the Gulf of Alaska.