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Alaska Backpacking and
Trekking -
Wrangell, St. Elias, Chugach mountains
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Standard
Trips
Our listed trips are divided into regions below. See which one fits
you best!
Custom
Trips
Let our trip descriptions and areas be a guide to what excites you,
what type of experience catches your eye. Let us help you create
the unique trip you're looking for. Learn
more...
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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
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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.
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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+ |
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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+ |
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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+ |
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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+ |
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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+ |
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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 |
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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
$1,435 per person for 2
$1,235 per person for 3
$1,145 per person for 4+ |
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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+ |
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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+ |
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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+ |
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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+ |
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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
$1,480 per person for 2
$1,250 per person for 3
$1,180 per person for 4+ |
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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+ |
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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+ |
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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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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+ |
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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+ |
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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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