I’m the owner/editor of AlaskaReport.com. I was raised in California until the day I turned 18 and got the hell out. I moved to Aspen, Colorado in 1985 with $225 in my pocket to become a journalist/ski bum. I was an unpaid photographer for the Aspen Daily News, a ski photographer for tourists on the mountain, a printer’s assistant, and worked as a chef. Three paid jobs there and I barely survived due to Aspen’s high prices. On the side I freelanced to ski magazines as a photographer. During my last two years there I worked for the local television station as a videographer.
In 1991 I moved to Ketchikan, Alaska. From there, as a chef, I took jobs at fishing lodges throughout Alaska so I could see as much of the state as possible. My wife and I, and our young son, now reside in Palmer.
I took over AlaskaReport in October of 2005. It was a rinky-dink one page site for commercial fisherman that averaged less than 10 visitors a day the first week I had it. In late March of 2008 we had just over 151,000 visitors - and over 500,000 pageviews - in one single day.