In 2013, Elon University added an internship in Alaska to its StudyUSA program. From Elon’s website: GBL 255/ENG 255-US (4 credit hours) This is a hybrid course begins online June 1, 2017 and goes on-location in Alaska (begins in Anchorage, Alaska June 12, 2017). This course fulfills either the Literature or Society requirement and, when […]
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Noatak
The town of Noatak is located on the Noatak River, a just west of the Noatak National Preserve.
Clam Gulch, AK
Joe Jacob’s operations base is in Clam Gulch, Alaska, on the Kenai Peninsula overlooking Cook Sound. In 2004, Joe and his friends built a pole barn to provide year-round protection for the expedition gear.
From Our Guests
I had a great time, Joe. The trip worked out great. I appreciate all that you did for me. Alaska is a very pretty place and very nice when you fine a place away from the masses. — Phyllis Wainwright Words can’t express the gratitude for what became for me so much more “than the […]
Staff and Guides
Joe Jacob Owner & Guide Found on the cliff and beaches of Clam Gulch, Alaska, Joe spends part of his year in the Lower 48. He approaches Alaska as a marine biologist and conservationist. During his two-decade career with The Nature Conservancy, Joe served as director of science for the Southeastern United States and spent […]
Kenai Peninsula Hike, Paddle & Tour (11 days)
Click here for the 7-day journey 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, coastal wetlands and near-shore and […]
Kenai Peninsula Hike, Paddle & Tour (7 days)
Click here for the 11-day journey 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, coastal wetlands and near-shore and […]
Denali Interior Hike, Paddle & Tour
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 […]