Alaska Backpacking and
Trekking -
Wrangell, St. Elias, Chugach mountains
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Choose KWG? Your Alaska experience with KWG lasts from the first phone call or email until you are leaving for home. We provide you with options for hiking trips within Wrangell St. Elias National Park, putting our knowledge and experience to work in creating a trip that meets your expectations and capabilities. Our guides have Wilderness First Responder medical training, carry first aid & satellite phones, and have never had a negative encounter with a bear while in camp or on the move. |
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Chitistone
Valley - Dramatic
canyons and glaciers, tundra trekking
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This is a place you'll never forget. It's a place where the raw, awesome powers of creation are apparent, where you'll feel as though you've been taken back to the Ice Age, where the great and primordial forces still rule. This area is defiined on a map as the dividing line between the Wrangell and St. Elias mountain ranges, a unique vantage point to be sure! Once you've been here, everything else will seem a little smaller, and you may dream every night of coming back. |
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Skolai Ultimate tundra tour Easy to Moderate 4 days - Base Camp |
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Nizina
Glacier Glacier access, dynamic landscape! Easy to Moderate 3 days - Base Camping |
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Wolverine
to Skolai Dramatic route in the high country Moderate to Strenuous 5 days - Backpackinag |
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Glacier
Creek Grand waterfalls, steep canyons Easy to Moderate 3 days - Base Camping |
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The
Goat Trail Big challenge, great pay-offs! Challenging and Strenuous 6 Days - Backpacking |
Chugach
Mountains
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Remote landings, huge glaciers, berries
galore!
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The Chugach are one of the three major mountain systems found in Wrangell - St. Elias National Park. A mighty and respectable range in themselves, they span along the Gulf of Alaska from Anchorage to beyond Cordova and also contain the Bagley Ice Field, the largest non-polar ice sheet in the world. |
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Iceberg
Lake Beautiful granite, huge scenery Easy to Moderate 4 days - Base Camp |
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Fan
Glacier A diverse playground! Moderate 4 days - Backpacking |
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Bremner
Glacier Traverse Lush meadows, true remoteness Strenuous & Challenging 6 days - Backpacking |
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Outer
Areas
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splendor of the truly remote wilderness!
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Well, you found it.....we're going to let you in on a few secrets! These are some of the places that you may not hear about, the places traveled even less than the others, the ones that are far enough out on their own that they don't fit into one of our other regions.... |
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