About Trek Alaska

Growing up on the shores of Lake Superior Gitchigumi, Anna has always had a love for playing outside. Anna has spent the past 5 summers working as a backcountry guide at a wilderness adventure camp and sharing outdoor experiences with youth including canoe trips in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and backpacking trips around the lower 48 and in the Alaska Brooks Range.

Anna has worked for the Utah Conservation Corps learning about the different plants and invasive species in the Moab area last fall, and has spent this past season working with sled dogs in Willow Alaska. This is Anna's first year learning how to care for, train, and race sled dogs and has gotten to experience how amazing and powerful these tiny beings are!  

ile working as  as a wilderness guide, Anna has come to realize a passion for facilitating connection amongst groups of people and allowing space for folks to interact with the outdoors in their own unique ways. Creating an environment where people feel welcomed and included in the outdoors, is important to Anna, while also discovering the past and present stories of where we travel is paramount to developing respect, responsibility, and allyship to these wild places and to each other.
 

This will be Matt's third summer guiding with Trek Alaska. Matt brings a lot of backcountry and guiding experience to the game, including time in various parts of the Alaskan wilderness. Matt has trekked and guided extensively in the Brooks Range including ANWR and Gates of the Arctic as well as the Wrangells. His travels in Patagonia are a real highlight in his adventures to date. 

Matt loves learning about and sharing the history of places that he visits in Alaska. He is currently working on his masters degree in history.  He seeks to help equip students with the skills to be active participants in the narration of their pasts, presents, and futures.

Greg first fell in love with mountains as a young lad on a Boy Scout backpacking trip to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. On his way to Alaska he made detour to Washington state where he spent six years exploring extensively in the Cascades of central and northern Washington. He was active in the Seattle branch of the Mountaineers where he instructed in a range of outdoor skills including navigation, route finding, snow shoeing, avalanche awareness and rescue, winter camping, ice ax self arrest and others.

In 2002 Greg moved to Alaska and fell in love with Wrangell-St. Elias on his first trek there which was the Seven Pass route. There was no turning back and the next summer was spent exploring remote routes in the park. Greg has traveled extensively in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park including the pioneering of many new hiking routes in the backcountry of the park. His passion is exploratory treks on untried routes and tries to get in at least one of those each summer.

In the spring of 2008 his book Hiking Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park was publish by Falcon Guides.

Reese was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico, were his parents began taking him hiking and car camping before he could even walk. Reese began skiing when he was three and eventually switched to snowboarding when his was ten, which is the same age he began rock climbing.

After a 6 year stint exploring and climbing in New Zealand a job opportunity brought him to Alaska and life was never the same.

He spent his summers guiding, climbing and working on the house he built at Thompson pass. In winter he was out exploring as much mountainous terrain as possible. When he didn't feel like traveling he just humped up the mountain in his back yard for some snow boarding and skiing action.

Reese has logged many hundreds of days guiding clients in the wilderness from rafting to trekking, climbing, ice climbing and more. 

To know him was to consider him a friend. It was an honor and a pleasure to have known and worked with Reese.