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1st Departure:
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06.25.2009
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Provider:
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Alaska Alpine Adventures
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Destination:
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North America > USA > Alaska
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Duration:
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10 days
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Skill Level:
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Advanced
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We pioneered this route in 2006 and found it to be perhaps Alaska's most quintessential backpacking traverse. In addition the magical solitude and intimate beauty of Lake Clark National Park, this journey also gives a comprehensive introduction to Alaska backcountry travel - float plane only access, wide open tundra ridge hiking, icy river crossings, trekking on glaciers, and navigating through trail-less wilderness. The route meanders southward through alpine regions of the Lake Clark Wilderness; from Telaquana Lake, past the rugged splendor of Turquoise Lake, and 10-days later to a finish at Dick Proenneke's log cabin on Twin Lakes.
Our route will allow us to connect three of Lake Clark National Park's most spectacular watersheds - Telaquana Lake, Turquoise Lake, and the famed Twin Lakes. This backpacking trip will take us up and over glaciers, through spectacularly vertical canyons, past huge waterfalls, and across some of the most stunning alpine tundra in Alaska.
If you dream of hiking through remote mountain ranges on ribbons of ice, connecting high alpine valleys laced with tumbling creeks, and trekking across miles of trail-less tundra, then this adventure will satisfy your yearning. This 10-day backpacking and hiking trip will take us from the remote Telaquana Lake, around the Trail Creek highlands, beneath the glaciated 8000' Telaquana Mountain, under the hanging glaciers surrounding Turquoise Lake, through the tundra of the Emerson Creek valley, and finally to Twin Lakes and our float plane pick-up at Hope Creek near Dick Proenneke's log cabin.
While the mountains present to us exciting route-finding challenges, the tundra allows the opportunity to hike easily and glass the horizons for Dall sheep, grizzly bears, caribou, moose, migratory foul, and birds of prey.