Last updated: January 25, 2017
Itinerary
What follows is a general flow of events. Expect the unexpected and prepare to be flexible.
June 17
Meet your guide at the Arctic Wild World Headquarters at 4 pm in Fairbanks.
June 18
We fly north from Fairbanks in our chartered plane, passing the Yukon River and then the peaks of the Brooks Range. We land on an improvised landing strip next to the river with towering peaks all around.
June 19 - 20
Your interests help govern our activities. We can fish, ascend the nearest peak and watch Dall Sheep grazing, or plan a big loop hike, up one drainage and down the other. Beach fires, or learning about the region’s wildlife are all options sure to delight the whole family. With 24 hours of daylight and more wilderness than we could explore in a lifetime, our energy and imagination are the only limits to what our days in the wilderness will hold.
June 22
Pack-up and await our pilot’s return. Weather permitting the plane arrives mid-day to shuttle us further north to an area where we expect to find caribou.
June 23 - 24
New hikes, new vistas, new adventures. We spend our time exploring the area looking for caribou and other wildlife. Your guide will lead hikes in hopes of placing ourselves in a hidden location in the path of the caribou. There will certainly be times when no caribou are present, but there is no end to the beauty of the arctic.
June 25
One last walk along the river and one last breakfast under the enormous sky. Weather permitting our pilot returns to fly us back south through the Brooks Range and across the breadth of northern Alaska arriving back in Fairbanks in time for a late dinner.
