Days 1-2

As you fly over the rugged Alaskan landscape, toward the Anchorage airport, you’ll quickly realize that you’re truly entering a land built for adventure. Upon exiting your plane you’ll be greeted by your new trip leaders and meet your new fellow venturers, folks who’ll become your best friends over the next several weeks. From the airport, you’ll travel just a few minutes away to our first campsite outside of Anchorage. Off to a great start to our trip, for the rest of the night and tomorrow we’ll pretty much hang out, get to each other, set up our tents for the first time, and prepare for our first adventure.

Days 3-5

For the next few days, we’ll take to the beautifully scenic land that belongs to Denali State Park! Making our way through this national treasure, we’ll surmount towering ridges allowing us visual passage to inspiring views of neighboring peaks. We begin our backcountry walk traveling shorter distances at first so as to allow us time to learn the important aspects of wilderness travel such as cooking skills, minimum impact camping, as well as map and compass skills. This is land of truly indescribable staggering beauty -- the perfect environment to grow closer as a team and get to know each other very well.

Days 6-7

At 20,327 feet, Mount Denali is the highest peak in North America. Having just backpacked in the shadow of this towering mastiff over the past three days, we'll be eager to enter the famous Denali National Park, spending the time both exploring the park and learning about this beautiful environment. Denali National Park is home to bear, Dall sheep, moose, gray wolf, foxes, wolverines and an abundance of other magnificent wild creatures, some of which we'll hope to spy as we travel through the inner reaches of the park. And after we’ve toured Denali, we’ll return to bustling Anchorage for showers and laundry.

Days 8-11

The start of our sea kayaking voyage takes us to the historic town of Whittier, Alaska. From Whittier, we’ll hop on a shuttle boat that will take us to our drop off point in the glacier-strewn Prince William Sound where our kayaking shall begin. For the next six days, we’ll be paddling from isolated campsite to campsite exploring and discovering all that we can about this mystic location. Meandering through these giant islands of ice, we’ll also get a chance to see native bald eagles, otters, seals, and maybe even some whales! After our kayaking tour is over, we’ll again rendezvous with the shuttle boat and be taxied back to Whittier. 

Day 12

The Lion's Head River offers exciting glacier fed whitewater as we paddle down the canyon. This is a great way to see some classic Alaskan wilderness and a wonderful culminating activity for our Alaskan adventure.  

Days 13-14

After our adventures on the water, we’ll then gather for our final end-of-trip banquet. We’ll enjoy one last meal together in a somewhat more civilized setting, as we’ll reminisce about the laughs and experiences we’ve all shared over the past several weeks together. Finally, the following morning, it’s time for us to say our good-byes. Our time together has seemingly flown by, but we’ll always have the incredible memories and life-long friendships to hold on to as a constant reminder of the best summer of our lives.