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Expeditions Alaska Expeditions. Alaska. Two things we love. Now booking: Aurora borealis photo tours! Browse our website and find the trip that's right for you. Elias National Park.

Plus guided backpacking, sea kayaking, rafting, and epic photography adventures across Alaska's wildest places. We guide small, customized backpacking trips into remote Alaska, where our knowledge and experience allow us to provide clients with an unparalleled adventure. We offer guided backpacking, hiking, camping and nature photography trips in Alaska, specifically Wrangell-St. Elias National Pa

rk, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Kenai Peninsula. We can also provide custom backpacking trips for you and your group, so feel free to contact us and discuss making arrangements. We offer a diversity of adventures, from the perfect family basecamping vacation, to more adventurous rugged backpacking trips in the heart of Wrangell - St. Regardless of your skill and experience, what kind of trip you seek, from basecamping and dayhiking, to more strenuous remote backpacking, to glacial traverses, to rafting, photography trips and more, we're absolutely positive that we can accommodate you.

We use this one as a cover shot for the trip. The guy with the flute (yours truly) is enjoying the space.The light goes ...
05/28/2026

We use this one as a cover shot for the trip. The guy with the flute (yours truly) is enjoying the space.
The light goes sideways for about three hours in summer up here, and there's nothing to do but look at things. Or make a little music

05/27/2026

Gates of the Arctic National Park is an astonishingly cool place. There's nothing quite like that part of the world.

We'd love to get the chance to show you around; hit follow, and check out the website for some of the options we run in Gates. I'll drop the link in the comment

He's eating it on the move.The whole flock of gulls in the back of the frame thinks they're getting some. He'll find a q...
05/26/2026

He's eating it on the move.

The whole flock of gulls in the back of the frame thinks they're getting some. He'll find a quiet spot, eat the brain, eat the skin, eat the eggs, and walk off. The gulls will have what's left.

Everybody at this picnic is a winner. The bear gets the calories he needs. The gulls get the bones and skin. The river gets the eggs that fell out. The whole system runs on this exact transaction, ten thousand times a summer, on every salmon-bearing creek in Alaska. We're just lucky enough to sit on the bank and watch it happen.

We bumped the cliff with the boat. The cliff didn't move.The Canning runs through some narrow stretches in the Sadleroch...
05/25/2026

We bumped the cliff with the boat. The cliff didn't move.

The Canning runs through some narrow stretches in the Sadlerochit where there's not much shoulder. Mostly you steer. Once in a while you bump.

The rock here is folded sedimentary, tipped up on edge, and stuck out into the river like a row of broken teeth. We could've put in another foot of water and been fine. We didn't. The boat had a small scrape and a story. Both wear off eventually.

There's a stretch of the Copper River corridor in Wrangell-St. Elias where the mountains go straight up from the flats a...
05/22/2026

There's a stretch of the Copper River corridor in Wrangell-St. Elias where the mountains go straight up from the flats and the nearest road is days away in any direction. You pitch your tent on the tundra, the peaks fill the entire sky, and the silence is so complete you can hear the river a mile off. We call this area the Heart of the Park. It's not on any tourist map. You have to walk in or float in to find it.

She stood up out of the water and gave us a long look. We got a good honest portrait of her. Wet, lean, ribs visible.Bea...
05/21/2026

She stood up out of the water and gave us a long look. We got a good honest portrait of her. Wet, lean, ribs visible.

Bears here will put on a third of their body weight before they den up. So by September this same bear will be unrecognizable. Loose folds of fat where there's none right now. Round face. The whole body language different.

This is the part of the bear year that doesn't make it to most galleries. The summer version. We like it.

Grizzlies in the Mist tour - see the comments

One of the best parts of sea kayaking Icy Bay is the harbor seals. They haul out on the icebergs by the dozens, and if y...
05/20/2026

One of the best parts of sea kayaking Icy Bay is the harbor seals. They haul out on the icebergs by the dozens, and if you drift quietly they'll let you pass within twenty feet. These two barely lifted their heads as we slid by.

The water in Icy Bay is milky turquoise from glacial flour, the bergs are electric white, and the seals just lie there like they own the place. Which, to be fair, they do.

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Harbor seals in Icy Bay give birth on icebergs calved from the surrounding glaciers. The pups can swim almost immediatel...
05/19/2026

Harbor seals in Icy Bay give birth on icebergs calved from the surrounding glaciers. The pups can swim almost immediately, but for the first few weeks they spend most of their time hauled out next to mom, nursing and resting.

This pair was on a berg surrounded by dozens of others, the bay quiet except for the occasional crack of ice breaking off the glacier face in the distance. Icy Bay is one of the best places in Alaska to see harbor seals up close, and moments like this are why we run sea kayaking trips there.

05/18/2026

Backpacking in Alaska is best described .. well .. kinda like this.

If you haven't seen it, check out our new Youtube Video ... first comment below ... wise words about Backpacking in Alas...
05/15/2026

If you haven't seen it, check out our new Youtube Video ... first comment below ... wise words about Backpacking in Alaska.

If you're not familiar with what backpacking here is like, you'll learn something.

If you ARE familiar with it, you'll nod along and go "yep, totally".

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Brooks Range backpacking isn't hiking. It's a 24-hour exercise in micro-navigation through a landscape with no trails, n...
05/15/2026

Brooks Range backpacking isn't hiking. It's a 24-hour exercise in micro-navigation through a landscape with no trails, no cairns, and no footprints that last more than a season.

New on the blog: what it actually takes.

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