Custom Trips

Your route. Your pace. Your trip.

Alaska offers more trip options than we can fit on individual pages. This section outlines some possibilities and combination trips we can build for you. The more experience you have and the clearer your goals, the more creative we can get with the itinerary.

Rather than build a separate webpage for every single trip option available in Alaska, this page collates and explains some of the potential trips and possibilities for you. There are virtually endless options available. The more adventurous you are and the more your skill set matches your interest, the more creative we can get with putting something together for you. Read on.

How Custom Trips Work

Want to put your own trip together? We can combine activities based on your interests and ability level: backpacking, packrafting, sea kayaking, basecamping, photography, or river trips. Most custom trips run 7-14 days, but we can work with your schedule.3-5 day trips are great too!

Common combinations

Sea kayaking in Icy Bay plus basecamp hiking at Iceberg Lake or the Lost Coast
Backpacking Hidden Creek, then packrafting the Lakina River (Class II-III+ whitewater)
Malaspina Glacier traverse with Lost Coast packrafting and hiking
Basecamp at Skolai Pass or backpack the Goat Trail, packraft the Chitistone and Nizina Rivers

These are examples, not fixed itineraries. Tell us what you want to do and we’ll figure out the logistics.

The options are endless, the logistics are open, and the adventure as big or as benign as you choose it to be.

Give us a call to discuss what might work.

Scheduled Custom Trips for 2027

Dates & prices are below.

ARCTIC SAMPLER

Basecamp and explore the mountains of central Brooks Range.

Exploratory Trips – A new route or location we haven’t tried before. Typically (but not always) a longer trip or hike, 10-14 days, for intermediate to advanced/experienced folks only.

Scheduled Dates
Coming again in 2027 We have an Agiak Lake (Gates of the Arctic National Park) Basepack trip scheduled (the Arctic Sampler). We are also running National Park visitor trips to combine both Gates of the Arctic and Kobuk National Park trips. Contact for details.

2027 Trips

Aug 7-Aug 15, 2027 (Gates & Kobuk Basecamping )

Aug 15-Aug 21, 2027 (Gates & Kobuk Basecamping)

Custom Dates Available

Price Trip Dependent

More custom trips to be added for 2027 shortly.

Location Gates of the Arctic National ParkKatmai National Park
Categories BackpackingBasecampingPackraftingRafting
Best Dates Jun-Sept
Guides Christie ConwayJared MartinRhane Pfeiffer
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Gates of the Arctic National Park

“The Arctic Sampler”

Basecamp or Basepack trip.

We’ll fly from Coldfoot into the heart of the Brooks Range, land on a small remote lake, and enjoy some spectacular wilderness.

This is your introduction to Gates of the Arctic National Park and all that it offers.

This is also a great area for a week long hike in the Brooks Mountains. We’ll camp and explore with some leisurely dayhikes. For those wanting a little bit more, we can do a “basepack” trip, combining a little backpacking and move camp once or twice. Not a full blown backpack trip, but not a simple basecamp by the lake either. A great choice if you want to experience a taste of the wilderness travel with the rigors of carrying a heavy backpack every day.

We’re also busy looking into possibilities in the area for a point to point backpack. Stay tuned, we’re excited about some of the opportunities here.

Any time in the summer is good. When works for you?

Denali State Park

A great place for a hike. Kesugi Ridge-Curry Ridge offers a nice trail system, and is a perfect option for someone looking for an easier walk, or a good introductory Alaska backpacking trip.

Send us an inquiry if you think you might like to consider this.

Exploratory Treks Wrangell-St. Elias National Park

Thompson Ridge and Juniper Island

An exploratory route for this year; I’ve hiked part of this route a couple of times, but we’re planning on doing the whole section this coming summer. Packrafts in hand, we’ll hike west to east, along the coast of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. We’ll have (weather permitting) great views of the mighty St. Elias Mountain Range nearby, without the task of constantly climbing and descending; on one hand, it’ll be easy, with no elevation loss/gain. On the other, it’s one of the least visited areas of the park, indeed of Alaska, and we’ll have numerous opportunities to explore this little traveled region. Expect this trip to be simply dripping with solitude.

Samovar Hills & the Malaspina Glacier Traverse

Have you ever wanted to hike across the largest piedmont glacier (meaning the glacier’s terminus is on land) in the world? In 2012 we walked from the St. Elias Mountain Range across the Malaspina Glacier to the Alaska coast at Yakutat Bay. The Malaspina Glacier, generally regarded by geologists to be a piedmont glacier, actually reaches the Pacific Ocean. Some friends and I confirmed this on a month long expedition in Nov 2011.