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The annual ski train - with on-board palm trees and oompah band - deep into Alaska
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Poster: A snowHead

Here's a ski travel article with a difference: it's about the once-a-year chartered ski train that rolls into 'backcountry Alaska' on the Kenai Peninsula. It's been operating "in one form or another" since 1937, with departures from Anchorage to two alternative destinations.

The one to Grandview and its glacier skiing has 19 cars and its very own entertainment: "lederhosen-clad polka band - the spirited 10-piece Anchorage Krausenspieler Blaskapelle Band". Also on board are "a beer car and a tiki bar, complete with plastic palm trees."

The Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage organises the charter and sells the tickets. The trains next roll on Feb. 25 and March 11.

This entertaining report by Bonnie Tsui of The New York Times.
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