Free Wrangell – St. Elias winter ski/photography trip » Caribou, Wrangell – St. Elias NP, Alaska.
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Caribou in snow, in Wrangell – St. Elias National Park.Day 10
After breakfast we’ll hike down to the landing strip for our pickup, and flight back to McCarthy. In McCarthy we’ll shower and change, then, for those who want to, we will head up to Kennecott and look around there. Lunch and dinner in McCarthy. We can have lunch at the Kennecott Lodge or bring it with us. In the evening we’ll return to McCarthy, have dinner, and again either camp on the river or stay at Kennecott River Cabins.
Day 11
We’ll get up early, have breakfast in McCarthy, then hit the road for the drive back to Anchorage. Typically we get back to Anchorage around 5 or 6 pm. I’ll drop you and you/r party off at your Anchorage accommodation. I highly suggest you don’t plan on flying out of Anchorage that evening, but wait until the following day – we CAN experience weather-delays in the backcountry that could easily make it difficult to get back to Anchorage in time for a flight on this day. If you must book your return flight on this day, please (a) speak with us about it well in advance, and (b) schedule a red eye, such as 1:00am the following morning (Aug 9, 1:00am, for our example here).
Additional Notes: One thing you can see here, if you’re providing your own food for the trip, is how many meals you might expect to bring. This trip is billed as an 8 day trip, but you won’t eat any meals in the backcountry until lunchtime on Day 2. Effectively, this trip would require you to backpack 5 days worth of food, plus extra food in case weather delays our pickup. It’s always wise to allow an extra day of food (or at least some form of snacks and food for an extra day). All our trips to the Wrangells, unless we specifically schedule otherwise, will include a day travel to get to McCarthy, a day to return to Anchorage, and we fly out of the backcountry usually in the morning of the 2nd last day.