You have to understand that Alaska is a huge state and thus has wildly different weather patterns (and amounts of daylight) depending on where you live. Southeast for example is very temperate and rarely gets below freezing along the coastline, you deal with massive amounts of rain. Where I'm at in the interior the weather is quite dry but temperatures swing widely between summer and winter.
SAD is a real issue for the northern regions and hits some people pretty hard. I combat it by spending as much time outdoors as I can, but that can be tough this time of year. My Strava apps says I have been on my xc skis 11 times in the first 19 days of 2020. The WARMEST temperature I've seen on the trails so far this year was +3F. The coldest was -32F.
Similar to the weather, the hunting also varies widely depending on where you are and what you are chasing It's like saying "hey, what's the hunting like east of the Mississippi?". Actually... it's a lot more variable than that.
Probably the biggest hunting challenge is just getting to the animals. Our road system is so limited that boats, planes, and ATV's tend to play a large role in spreading people out. And even with the use of all those expensive toys people tend to get crowded into the access points while a huge portion of the state remains nearly untouched.
