- In Alaska it’s illegal to…
- push a moose from an airplane.
- wake a sleeping bear for a photo.
- whisper in someone’s ear while moose hunting.
- There are more men (52.3%) than women (47.7%) in Alaska
- Many people think it’s way more drastic than that. That’s because there were a lot more men here during gold rush days and the building of the Alaska pipeline, which is how we earned the reputation. It has since come closer to even.
- However! We do still have the highest male to female ratio in the US and we are one of only ten states where men outnumber women which are North Dakota, Wyoming, South Dakota, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Nevada, Hawaii, Idaho, in that order.
- We still hang on to the funny catchphrase - “If you want to find love in Alaska, the odds are good! But the goods are odd…”
- You can use your hand like a map of Alaska - take your right hand, palm facing down, curl your pinky, ring, and middle fingers, pivot your hand 90º to the left. Your thumb is the panhandle, your pointer finger is the Aleutian Island chain, your curled knuckles are the Northwest coastline. Anchorage sits on the edge in the space between your index finger and thumb. Nome would be along the bottom edge of your ring finger. Mt. Denali is in line with your middle knuckle, just left of center.