

The wolf was imposing, to be sure, but as personality or genetics or the alignment of the stars would have it, it was also crazy for dogs. Two days later, he and his dogs ran across the creature: a good-sized, black-haired wolf, easily double his biggest dog, a barrel-chested Lab.

Juneau-based journalist Jans was out skiing on the frozen lake by his house when his eye caught a track that wasn’t laid down by a dog. The story opens in the early winter of 2003, just north of Juneau, Alaska, near Mendenhall Glacier.

The sweet and cautionary tale of a wolf that liked to play with dogs.
