Guided Alaska Hiking and Backpacking Adventures - McCarthy Alaska

This 6 day trip has so much to offer. It's a high country route perched far above the Chitistone river with simply amazing views all around. The icing on the cake is the abundance of fossils in the area and not just  a few if we're lucky, but a LOT of them.

There is a lot of flexibility with this route. We fly into Wolverine Mountain and spend a day checking out all the fossilts up the ridge before heading out to the Grotto Creek area. From there we can base camp and explore the region or continue on and do a circumnavigation of the mesa. Either way we end up back at Wolverine for the pickup. Your guide will work out the final itinerary with the group.

This route offers some challenges without being over the top. It's a real favorite with the guides.

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 A great introduction to the Brooks range in northern Alaska. We usually do this as a loop style trip with a combination of backpacking and day hiking. This allows us to explore the ridges and tucked-away alpine lakes without always having full loads on our back. 

Most hiking is in the more moderate range.

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Owner Greg Fensterman is the author of Hiking Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias National Park published by Falcon Guides. So when we say that nobody has a more in-depth knowledge of the backcountry of Wrangell-St. Elias it’s not an empty boast. Oh… and the book doesn’t give away all the park’s secrets by a long shot. We know lots of great spots not included. We have been taking people into the deep backcountry for 20 years so we know this country like nobody else.