Guided Alaska Hiking and Backpacking Adventures - McCarthy Alaska

Explore, learn, and connect in a wilderness environment. Join a group of LGBTQIA+ people to find adventure and build community.  Grow your outdoor skills in a queer-positive environment. Gain confidence as you take on new challenges, whether that means camping in the Alaskan backcountry for the first time or expanding your existing technical skillset.

This 5 day trip will explore the Iceberg Lake area which has so much to offer. Lots of dramatic terrain including hanging glaciers, peaks and ridges, a valley glacie to cross and more. This trip is usually done as a combination backpacking and day hiking trip. We generally head up valley and make a camp then explore the ridge to the north which offers some moderate scramble peaks if folks are up for that. Lots of options and possibilities in the Iceberg Lake valley.

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This summer we are teaming up with Unruly Women for a trek in the Wrangells.

Unruly Women backpacking retreats focus around skill building, self empowerment through challenging experiences, and through immersing ourselves in nature to nurture mindfulness and strengthen our intuition so that we learn to better listen to our intuition and trust ourselves.

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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.