This article was originally published on www.si.com/onsi/breakaway as Kraken Mascot Has Grizzly Encounter in Alaska.

The employer of a man whose carry-on bag was found to contain a small explosive device at the Anchorage airport said Monday that he was carrying avalanche-control equipment.

The 24-year-old Bulgarian man was driving on George Parks Highway "just south of the entrance to the Denali Park Road " at ...