Destinations |
Anchorage, Turquoise Lake, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
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Activity |
Family, Active, Hiking & Trekking, Backpacking, Camping, Nature & Wildlife, Photography, Birdwatching, National Parks, Solo Travel |
Tour Type |
Small group tour
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Physical Level |
Strenuous
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Season |
July - August |
This routes explores three of Lake Clark National Park’s most spectacular watersheds — Telaquana Lake, Turquoise Lake, and the famed Twin Lakes. This backpacking trip will take you up and over glaciers, through spectacularly vertical canyons, past huge waterfalls, and across some of the most stunning alpine tundra in Alaska.
This 10-day backpacking and hiking trip will take you from the shores of remote Telaquana Lake, around the Trail Creek highlands, beneath the glaciated 8000’ Telaquana Mountain, under the hanging glaciers surrounding Turquoise Lake, over a glacier pass, through the tundra of the Emerson Creek valley, and finally to Twin Lakes.
While the mountains present exciting route-finding challenges, the tundra allows the opportunity to hike easily and glass the horizons for Dall’s sheep, grizzly bears, caribou, moose, migratory foul, and birds of prey.
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Accommodation
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8 nights camping. All equipment provided: expedition quality tents, group tarps, all cooking equipment & eating utensils, basecamp privy with toilet supplies. Lodging on the final night at the Farm Lodge on Lake Clark.
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Guided excursions
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Professional guide service at a maximum 4:1 guest to guide ratio.
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All meals
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All meals from lunch on day 1 through lunch on the final day of the itinerary. Breakfasts include steel cut oats, scrambles, homemade granola and cereal, locally roasted coffee, assorted tea and cocoa. Lunches could include an Italian club torta sandwich, asiago bagels and Alaska lox, a curried tuna pita, crackers with genoa salami with a roasted red pepper goat cheese spread. Snack mixes and energy bars available throughout the day. Dinners could include pasta carbonara, Alaska reindeer rotini, chicken and chipotle enchiladas, and more. Vegetarian and special dietary requirements catered for on request.
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Ground transfers
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Ground Transportation to Merrill Field on day 1.
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Internal flights
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Roundtrip bush flight transportation from Anchorage to Port Alsworth. Floatplane flights from Port Alsworth to Telaquana Lake and Hope Creek to Port Alsworth.
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