The Alaskan interior is dominated by the Alaska mountain range. The entire region shows evidence of a time when glaciers covered everything. Today, broad river valleys, rolling foothills and the great northern boreal forest of spruce, birch and willow trees cover the landscape. Crystal clear streams with their payload of salmon, rainbow trout, arctic grayling […]
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Caribou Hills Dog Mushing In Coho & Ninilchik
The Kenai Peninsula in south central Alaska is an area where humans and wildlife have co-existed for thousands of years. The region is topographically and geologically diverse with tall mountains, broad valleys, rolling foothills, turquoise-colored lakes and rivers, ice fields, glaciers, northern boreal forests and coastal wetlands. The vast resources of the Peninsula, both living […]
Arctic Circle Hot Springs Cross-Country Skiing & Dog Sledding
The interior of Alaska is part of the great northern boreal forest that circles the entire globe. This area is home to indigenous people known as Athabascans. For thousands of years, their subsistence life style was in harmony with the wilderness. The land, water and wildlife provided them with the essentials for survival. During the […]
Wrangell-St. Elias, Alaska Skolai Pass Wilderness Hiking
The Wrangell–St. Elias National Park is the Nation’s largest. At over 13 million acres, it is six times the size of Yellowstone National Park and encompasses three major mountain ranges and well over 150 glaciers. Extending to the Canadian border, it joins the Canadian Kluane National Park. This “Mountain Kingdom of North America” offers outstanding […]
Nenana River Whitewater Paddling And Denali Tour
The Nenana River originates out of the Nenana Glacier on the south side of the Alaska Mountain Range. The river first flows west and then cuts its way north through the mountains as it passes through Denali National Park on its way to join the Tanana River, a tributary of the Yukon River. This region […]
Chulitna River Whitewater Canoeing & Hiking
The Chulitna River originates between the Alaska and Talkeetna Mountain ranges in Southcentral Alaska. It flows through parts of both Denali National Park & Preserve and Denali State Park. The Middle and East Forks of the Chulitna River are both clear and fast. Downstream of their confluence, the main channel becomes glacial, faster and alternates […]
