Expeditions Alaska

Call Website Contact the business

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 Park, 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.

Every so often the effort and the payoff line up exactly, and this was one of those.The hill in the foreground is a mora...
10/22/2026

Every so often the effort and the payoff line up exactly, and this was one of those.

The hill in the foreground is a moraine, the pile of rock a glacier leaves behind when it pulls back. Walking up one is miserable. Loose, steep, and it hands back about a third of every step.

The bowl on the far side is what the ice was doing before it left. Scooped out, then filled with meltwater. The peaks behind it still have their glaciers.

We got to the top of the moraine and nobody said anything for a while, which in a group of adults who'd been talking constantly for four days is worth noting.

Then somebody asked about lunch and it was all back to normal.

It's the kind of frame you might take by accident and keep on purpose. The sun was below the ridge by the time we trippe...
10/21/2026

It's the kind of frame you might take by accident and keep on purpose.

The sun was below the ridge by the time we tripped the shutter. Some folks didn't think anything would come out nicely, and true, many of them didn't.

This one did.

The rim light along her back is what she actually looks like, by the way. The dark is what we couldn't see. Sometimes you remember the moment differently than the camera saw it. Most of the time the camera is more honest than we are.

Look for this stuff when you're in the field.

Backpacking Arrigetch Peaks, Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska.Every trip into the Arrigetch starts with a stret...
10/20/2026

Backpacking Arrigetch Peaks, Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska.

Every trip into the Arrigetch starts with a stretch that looks a lot like this one.

Green. Spruce along the banks, willow up to the chest in places, a river running clear and cold alongside, and mountains out front that are big and handsome but not the ones anybody came for.

The granite is further in. It takes a while to get there.

What I like about these first days is that nobody's expectations are sorted out yet. The group's still finding its pace, still learning who talks in the morning and who doesn't, still fiddling with hipbelts. It's the part of the trip where a handful of people slowly turn into a crew.

By the time the spires come into view, that part's mostly done.

See the link below.

10/19/2026

She’s not posing. Getting up that high puts her eyes above the glare so she can see down through the water, and the moment she picks a fish out she drops on it. Stay for the end of this one.

Up to look, down to go. She ran that over and over, and the whole time we’re on the bank trying to guess which way she’d move so we’d be pointed the right way when she did.

Bears are a lot more patient than the people photographing them. You learn that fast out there.

People ask about the food more than almost anything else, so here it is, spread out on a rock.Tortillas, because bread t...
10/16/2026

People ask about the food more than almost anything else, so here it is, spread out on a rock.

Tortillas, because bread turns to crumbs by day three and tortillas don't. Hard salami and a firm cheese, both perfectly content at whatever temperature the inside of a pack happens to be. Dates and nuts, which carry more value per ounce than anything else in the bag and also vanish the fastest.

That's a midday spread on a hiking trip in the Arrigetch. It takes about ten minutes to put out and it's gone in twelve.

What I'd tell anybody thinking about a trip like this is that hungry turns a good day into a bad one faster than weather does. So we carry more than we think we need, and we stop and eat properly instead of grazing on bars while we walk.

The granite makes a decent table. That part we didn't have to pack in.

Rafting Canning River, in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.The Canning doesn't have many rapids in the way most p...
10/15/2026

Rafting Canning River, in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.

The Canning doesn't have many rapids in the way most people picture rapids. It has gravel. Miles of braided gravel, and the whole job is picking which of five channels actually goes somewhere instead of dumping the boat into six inches of water and making everybody get out and drag.

We got it wrong a few times. Everybody does.

That's the day on a river like this. Read the water, commit, and then either look like a genius for thirty seconds or stand in it.

The gray helped, honestly. Flat light takes the glare off those Brooks Range slopes and the rock goes soft and layered. Not what anybody would call good camera weather. It was good river weather.

We pulled onto a bar somewhere in there and made coffee and stood around with our hoods up. Best part of the day.

The sky was working harder than the bear was. We set up on a low rise twenty minutes earlier and waited. The bear ambled...
10/14/2026

The sky was working harder than the bear was. We set up on a low rise twenty minutes earlier and waited. The bear ambled up onto the ridge in his own time. The thunderhead pulled the sky in behind him. We just held the shutter and let the weather do the composing. We got rained on for the next three hours and didn't take another picture worth keeping. Sometimes the trip is one frame. The cost of the one frame is the three hours that follow. Worth it.

10/13/2026

Some of our Alaska brown bear photo tours, squeezed into 48 seconds.

Coffee in camp, "Ready to go see some bears?", tracks in the sand, everyone piling out of the skiff. Then a lot of sitting on the gravel while the bears do bear things in Katmai National Park. Fishing. Digging clams. A scrap now and then. One big fella lay down in front of a glacier and we all waited on him for a good while. Then back to the boat for dinner.

Bears are way too cool. I've been photographing them for 25 years and still learn something every trip. And the folks who come along? Always a blast. Thanks to everyone who came out with us this season, and to Christie for feeding us all.

Thinking about next summer?
https://www.expeditionsalaska.com/explore/alaska-bear-tours/

Backpacking the Goat Trail.Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.Crossing a glacier changes the rhythm of a day.The g...
10/13/2026

Backpacking the Goat Trail.
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.

Crossing a glacier changes the rhythm of a day.

The ground stops being ground. It's ice under a layer of rubble, with channels cut into it and rocks balanced on pedestals and meltwater running everywhere.

Water's the one easy part. This channel ran clear and cold right past us, so we topped up bottles without breaking stride much.

The walking is slower. We pick lines, we test things, we don't get in a hurry.

Then a few hours later the ice runs out, there's dirt underfoot again, and it feels strange for a while.

Come see the Goat Trail
https://www.expeditionsalaska.com/trip/backpacking/goat-trail-backpacking/

10/13/2026

Adventures to Oz - a backpacking classic in Alaska's own Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. Hiking trip extraordinaire, not for the faint of heart. But it's OH SO GOOD.

Address

Atlanta, GA

Telephone

+17709524549

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Expeditions Alaska posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to Expeditions Alaska:

Shortcuts

Share

Category