The folks of Nome, Alaska, understand cabin fever. They also have a unique cure for it. It's called The Bering Sea Ice Golf Classic, played on the shores of the frozen Bering Sea. Even Jack Nicklaus would have trouble playing this six-hole course. The putting holes are coffee cans sunk in the ice.
Temperatures hover in the teens and low twenties Fahrenheit.
Ice chunks, pressure ridges and sunlight reflecting off all that white snow and ice are enough to make even a pro golfer want to take up billiards. So holiday pines have to be trucked in. Once stripped of their Yule finery, the trees are planted in the ice, creating the Seasonal National Forest. The Forest is the brainchild of Connie Madden. When a local man stuck his old Christmas tree in the middle of the ice to aggravate a neighbor, Connie saw an opportunity to have some fun on a large scale.