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Alaska: The cold state of love What happens when two reporters head to Alaska to find romance?
Single Washington Post reporters Tara Bahrampour, left, and Annie Gowen at the airport in Homer, Alaska. Alaska has the highest man-to-woman ratio of any state, with 108.5 men for every 100 women. In the District, there are 89.5 men for every 100 women, fewer than in any of the 50 states.
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Alaska’s Old Sterling Highway. “In Alaska, men value women differently: If you can wield a chain saw, if you can buck wood, if you can catch a fish,” says Libby Casey, a Washington journalist in her 30s who spent 10 years in Fairbanks.
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Photographer Mark Meyer met several single men in Anchorage who were interested in being photographed for this story. Kerry Tasker is a 30-year-old photographer.
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Paul Dombroski, 49, is a DJ and tournament director for the Whaler Bar in East Anchorage.
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Jake Aubrey is a 21-year-old student.
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Travis Snyder, 28, works at an engineering firm and is an avid hunter and fisherman.
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Jon Smiley, 28, is a mechanical/piping designer.
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Seth Boyer, 24, is an independent musician.
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During their trip, Annie and Tara met plenty of single men, including Daniel "Gregory" Gallagher, 25, who recently came up from San Diego with $6,000 in gold mining equipment and works for a yurtmaker in Homer. In the spring, he plans to hike the avalanche chutes (paths cleared of trees by snow) with a metal detector and plunge into icy waters in an arctic dry suit to hunt for gold.
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Caleb Aldeman of Wasilla is in his 50s. and divorced. Growing up in a log cabin, he had an ermine as a pet, and enjoys trapping, fishing and hunting.
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Phil Costantini, 38, is a fisherman who has worked in Alaska for seven years. He lives on a fishing boat docked in the harbor in Kodiak. ““Honestly, this is probably the hardest place I’ve ever been at to find a girl to hang out with,” he says.
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Tara aboard Costantini’s boat. It has a bunkbed area that sleeps four and a TV. He heats the galley by turning on the electric oven and leaving its door ajar.
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The Salty Dawg Saloon in Homer.
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Patrons at the Salty Dawg Saloon.
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Tara sings Joe Walsh’s “Life’s Been Good” karaoke-style at the Down East Saloon in Homer.
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Courtney Enlow, 23, a oil company employee, dines with several men at the Whale's Tail Bistro and Wine Bar in Anchorage, where the man-to-woman ratio has evened out as more women migrate to take jobs for environmental groups or oil and gas companies.
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The fishing town of Kodiak is nestled between mountains and sea. Here, according to Census figures, there are 143 single men ages 25 to 59 to every 100 single women.
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A street scene in Homer, nicknamed “The End of the Road.”
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Jedidia Gautier, 23, works on the docks in Homer. He has made enough money to buy a house and a motorcycle, but has had a hard time meeting women.
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Artist and woodcarver Bill Kitzmiller in his studio in Homer.
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Expert moose caller Mark Braaten, 53, a volunteer for a veterans’ group, at the ceremonial kickoff of the Iditarod dog sled race in Anchorage.
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Annie with a friend at the Iditarod race in Willow.
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