Cordova Ice Worm Festival (Cordova): The truth is, ice worms do exist. Really. This winter carnival celebrates them in February. The highlight is the traditional annual march of the ice worm (a costume with dozens of feet sticking out) down the main street.
Midnight Sun Baseball Game (Fairbanks): For more than 100 years they have played a baseball game without lights that doesn't begin until 10:30pm on the longest day of the year.
Bering Sea Ice Golf Classic (Nome): The greens are AstroTurf, as the sea ice won't support a decent lawn in mid-March. Hook a drive and you could end up spending hours wandering among the pressure ridges, but you must play the ball as it lies.
Piuraagiaqta (Barrow): This spring festival, in April, includes lots of strange contests, such as the tea making race -- contestants start with solid ice -- and the white men versus Eskimo women tug-of-war contest, which the white men have yet to win after many years of trying. Or the community may have come up with some other silly contest this year.
Mountain Mother Contest (Talkeetna): In this event in the July Moose Dropping Festival, mothers compete in a test of Bush skills, including splitting wood, carrying water, and diapering a baby.
Wild Cow Milking Contest (Kodiak): The Labor Day Kodiak State Fair and Rodeo includes an event in which pairs of amateur cowboys and cowgirls pulled from the audience chase down and milk small cows unleashed in a ring.
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