If you assumed that the snowiest town in the United States would be packed with exciting outdoor adventures, you would be correct. Let's go to Alaska!

February 10: TAPS announces plans to build a hot oil pipeline from Prudhoe Bay in the Arctic Circle to Valdez on Alaska's south coast. The original plan is to bury the pipe the whole way.

It was to the toe of the Valdez Glacier in southern Alaska that prospectors flocked ... more than 100 miles from Bartlett Cove up the bay in the summer months. Other glaciers are seen on the ...

But on Jan. 16, 1990, 35 years ago, an Alaska town was clobbered by a series of snowstorms impressive even by local standards. Valdez, Alaska, picked up almost two feet of snow (47.5 inches) in just ...