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Alaska Backpacking and Trekking -
Wrangell, St. Elias, Chugach mountains

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Why Choose KWG?
Your Alaska experience with KWG lasts from the first phone call or email until you are leaving for home. We embody the hospitality and spirit of this land that we call home in our highest capacity. Our guides have a minimum of WFR medical training, carry extensive first aid kits and satellite phones, and have a solid safety record that reflects our professionalism and attention to detail. We've never had a single negative encounter with a bear in the backcountry, either on the move or in our camps. KWG has taken the lead and is setting the example for safety and wildlife protocols within Wrangell St. Elias National Park.

The Blackburn Basin - Hiking on HUGE Alaska glaciers
Backpacking on a glacier
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Our backyard rivals anywhere in Alaska for giant, inspiring, glaciated, dramatic landscapes, and rivals any trip within this park in terms of scenery and backpacking destinations. These are predominantly glacier trips, accessible 1.5 miles from our office in Kennicott. We travel on the white ice of the glaciers and camp on and off the ice as we move along, using them as roads through the wilderness.

Alaska hiking on glaciers Glacier Hiking
Hike out of Kennicott!
Moderate to Strenuous
3 or 5 days - Backpacking
$660 or $1,100 per person for 2
$555 or $925 per person for 3+
Hiking in Alaska meadows Hidden Valley Traverse
An alpine paradise
Challenging
4 days - Backpacking
$1,435 per person for 2
$1,235 per person for 3
$1,145 per person for 4+
Alaska glacier hiking The Fosse
Mt. Blackburn Factor!
Moderate to Challenging
3 days - Backpacking
$850 per person for 2
$725 per person for 3
$675 per person for 4+
Alaska ridgewalking Nikolai Ridge
Easy ridge walking, huge views
Easy (with Strenuous option)
3 days - Basecamp or Backpacking
$975 per person for 2
$835 per person for 3
$775 per person for 4+
Hiking in Alaska, lakes Donoho Lakes
An oasis amongst the ice
Moderate to Strenuous
4 days - Backpacking
$880 per person for 2
$740 per person for 3
$680 per person for 4+
Camping on Alaska glacier Root Glacier Overnighter
Camp on a glacier!
Moderate
2 days/1 night - Backpacking
$395 per person for 2
$370 per person for 3
$425 per for 2+ with Ice Climbing

Chitistone Valley - Dramatic canyons and glaciers, tundra trekking
Hikers perched on a canyon
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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.

Ultimate tundra tour Skolai
Ultimate tundra tour
Easy to Moderate
4 days - Base Camp
$1,435 per person for 2
$1,235 per person for 3
$1,145 per person for 4+
Mile high cliffs Nizina Glacier
Glacier access, dynamic landscape!
Easy to Moderate
3 days - Base Camping
$1,080 per person for 2
$930 per peron for 3
$860 per person for 4+
High Alaskan passes Wolverine to Skolai
Dramatic route in the high country
Moderate to Strenuous
5 days - Backpackinag
$1,655 per person for 2
$1,410 per person for 3
$1,315 per person for 4+
Glacier carved valleys Glacier Creek
Grand waterfalls, steep canyons
Easy to Moderate
3 days - Base Camping
$980 per person for 2
$835 per person for 3
$775 per person for 4+
Ultimate Alaska backpacking The Goat Trail
Big challenge, great pay-offs!
Challenging and Strenuous
6 Days - Backpacking
$1,755 per peron for 2
$1,470 per person for 3
$1,360 per person for 4+

Chugach Mountains -  Remote landings, huge glaciers, berries galore!
Giant ice fields!
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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.

Iceberg lake Iceberg Lake
Beautiful granite, huge scenery
Easy to Moderate
4 days - Base Camp
$1,480 per person for 2
$1,250 per person for 3
$1,180 per person for 4+
Remote glacier Fan Glacier
A diverse playground!
Moderate
4 days - Backpacking
$1,510 per person for 2
$1,300 per person for 3
$1,205 per person for 4+
Glacier traverse Bremner Glacier Traverse
Lush meadows, true remoteness
Strenuous & Challenging
6 days - Backpacking
$1,950 per person for 2
$1,670 per person for 3
$1,545 per person for 4+

Outer Areas - The splendor of the truly remote wilderness!
Remote Alaska 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....

Historic Alaska tour Chisana Gold Rush!
Historic route over open tundra
Moderate
5 Days - Backpacking
$1,730 per person for 2
$1,485 per person for 3
$1,375 per person for 4+
Amazing backpacking traverse Tonsina Plateau Traverse
Ulitmate view of the Wrangells!
Strenuous & Challenging
7 days - Backpacking
$1,890 per person for 2
$1,550 per person for 3
$1,400 per person for 4+
Alaska adventure Twaharpies Traverse
A real alpine adventure!
Strenuous & Challenging
5 days - Backpacking
$1,670 per person for 2
$1,430 per person for 3
$1,325 per person for 4+
   
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Wrangell St. Elias National Park, Alaska

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